"No More Separate Spheres "challenges the limitations of thinking
about American literature and culture within the narrow rubric of
"male public" and "female private" spheres from the founders to the
present. With provocative essays by an array of cutting-edge
critics with diverse viewpoints, this collection examines the ways
that the separate spheres binary has malingered unexamined in
feminist criticism, American literary studies, and debates on the
public sphere. It exemplifies new ways of analyzing gender, breaks
through old paradigms, and offers a primer on feminist thinking for
the twenty-first century.
Using American literary studies as a way to talk about changing
categories of analysis, these essays discuss the work of such major
authors as Catharine Sedgwick, Herman Melville, Pauline E. Hopkins,
Frederick Douglass, Catharine Beecher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. E.
B. Du Bois, Sarah Orne Jewett, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Maria Ampara
Ruiz de Burton, Ann Petry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Cynthia Kadohata,
Chang Rae-Lee, and Samuel Delany. "No More Separate Spheres " shows
scholars and students different ways that gender can be approached
and incorporated into literary interpretations. Feisty and
provocative, it provides a forceful analysis of the limititations
of any theory of gender that applies only to women, and urges
suspicion of any argument that posits "woman" as a universal or
uniform category.
By bringing together essays from the influential special issue of
"American Literatur"e of the same name, a number of classic essays,
and several new pieces commissioned for this volume, "No More
Separate Spheres " will be an ideal teaching tool, providing a key
supplementary text in the American literature classroom.
"Contributors." Jose F. Aranda, Lauren Berlant, Cathy N.
Davidson, Judith Fetterley, Jessamyn Hatcher, Amy Kaplan, Dana D.
Nelson, Christopher Newfield, You-me Park, Marjorie Pryse,
Elizabeth Renker, Ryan Schneider, Melissa Solomon, Siobhan
Somerville, Gayle Wald, Maurice Wallace
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies |
| Release date: |
May 2002 |
| First published: |
May 2002 |
| Editors: |
Cathy N. Davidson
• Jessamyn Hatcher
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
448 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-2893-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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| LSN: |
0-8223-2893-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780822328933 |
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