1st Edition

Feminist Theory Across Disciplines Feminist Community and American Women's Poetry

By Shira Wolosky Copyright 2013
282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

Defying traditional definitions of public and private as gendered terms, and broadening discussion of women’s writing in relation to feminist work done in other fields, this study addresses American women’s poetry from the seventeenth to late-twentieth century. Engaging the fields of literary criticism, anthropology, psychology, history, political theory, religious culture, cultural studies, and... Read more

Preface: Public and Private in Feminist Theory and Poetics 1. Modest Muses: Feminist Literary History 2. Muted Groups, Veiled Discourses: Feminist Anthropology 3. Recovering Women's Voices: Feminist Psychology 4. Separate Spheres: Feminist History 5. Public Women, Private Men: Feminist Political Theory 6. Civic Feminism and Religious Association 7. The Subject of the Body: Foucault and Culture Studies 8. Feminist Poetics and Aesthetic Theory

Biography

Shira Wolosky received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, and was Associate Professor of English at Yale University before moving to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is Professor of English and American Studies. Her awards include a Fulbright Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fellowship at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, a Drue Heinz Visiting Professorship at Oxford University.