With a little help from Virginia Woolf, Susan Gubar contemplates
startling transformations produced by the women's movement in
recent decades. What advances have women made and what still needs
to be done? Taking Woolf's classic "A Room of One's Own" as her
guide, Gubar engages these questions by recounting one year in the
life of an English professor.
A meditation on the teaching of literature and on the state of
the humanities today, her chapters also provide a crash course on
the challenges and changes in feminist intellectual history over
the past several decades: the influence of post-structuralism and
of critical race, postcolonial, and cultural studies scholarship;
the stakes of queer theory and the institutionalization of women's
studies; and the effects of globalism and bioengineering on
conversations about gender, sex, and sexuality. Yet "Rooms of Our
Own" eschews a scholarly approach. Instead, through narrative
criticism it enlists a thoroughly contemporary cast of characters
who tell us as much about the comedies and tragedies of campus life
today as they do about the sometimes contentious but invariably
liberating feminisms of our future.
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