1st Edition
Feminist Criticism and Social Change (RLE Feminist Theory) Sex, class and race in literature and culture
Contributors. Acknowledgements. Preface. Introduction: Toward a materialist-feminist criticism Judith Newton and Deborah Rosenfelt. Part 1: Theory 1. Toward a black feminist criticism Barbara Smith 2. Race and gender in the shaping of the American literary canon: a case study from the twenties Paul Lauter 3. Constructing the subject: deconstructing the text Catherine Belsey 4. Ideology and the cultural production of gender Michele Barrett 5. Writing the body: toward an understanding of l’ecriture feminine Ann Rosalind Jones Part 2: Applied Criticism 6. Villette Judith Newton 7. Aurora Leigh Cora Kaplan 8. Inverts and experts: Radclyffe Hall and the lesbian identity Sonja Ruehl 9. Shadows uplifted Barbara Christian 10. From the thirties: Tillie Olsen and the radical tradition Deborah Rosenfelt 11. Romance in the age of electronics: Harlequin Enterprises Leslie W. Rabine 12. Real Women Annette Kuhn. Index.
Biography
Deborah Rosenfelt, Judith Newton
