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This stimulating collection is the first to take on the issue of
form and what it means to the future of scholarly writing. A wide
range of distinguished scholars from fields including law,
literature, and anthropology shed light on the ways scholars can
write for different publics and still adhere to the standards of
quality scholarship.
This stimulating collection is the first to take on the issue of
form and what it means to the future of scholarly writing. A wide
range of distinguished scholars from fields including law,
literature, and anthropology shed light on the ways scholars can
write for different publics and still adhere to the standards of
quality scholarship.
This volume of recent "Signs "articles offers a number of
significant contributions to feminist debates on history and
theory. It illustrates the uses of theories in recent feminist
historical research and the often contentious arguments that
surround them. The readings are organized into three sections. The
first draws on the tradition of political economy, and discusses
the importance of class relations for understanding historical
events and social relationships and the expansion of concepts of
political economy to include race. The second section, on "The
Body," demonstrates how feminist scholars have increasingly worked
to re-place the body, to move it from its traditionally less valued
position in the hierarchal Enlightenment mind/body split to an
approach that emphasizes the body as both material and discursive,
both "real" and "representational." The final section, "Discourse,"
focuses on an examination of the productive power of language in
both reflecting and shaping experience and in the contestation of
social relations of power.
This volume of recent "Signs "articles offers a number of
significant contributions to feminist debates on history and
theory. It illustrates the uses of theories in recent feminist
historical research and the often contentious arguments that
surround them. The readings are organized into three sections. The
first draws on the tradition of political economy, and discusses
the importance of class relations for understanding historical
events and social relationships and the expansion of concepts of
political economy to include race. The second section, on "The
Body," demonstrates how feminist scholars have increasingly worked
to re-place the body, to move it from its traditionally less valued
position in the hierarchal Enlightenment mind/body split to an
approach that emphasizes the body as both material and discursive,
both "real" and "representational." The final section, "Discourse,"
focuses on an examination of the productive power of language in
both reflecting and shaping experience and in the contestation of
social relations of power.
That literature is a form of social action has been an implicit
assumption of feminist literary criticism since its emergence in
academia some twenty-five years ago. This assumption has served not
only to heighten the awareness of gender construction and response
in literature, but also to redefine the process and goals of
literary criticism itself.
Three powerful interviews with writers of different nationalities
(Audre Lorde, Simone de Beauvoir, and Carmen Naranjo) introduce
topics echoed in the essays that follow: the interplay between
women's writing and feminist theory, the politics of writing, and
the roles of race, class, and sexual orientation in artistic
production. These issues are engaged on a theoretical level by
three essays that represent today's most prominent areas of concern
for feminist literary criticism. The theoretical perspectives
advanced in this anthology provide models for reading the
traditional expressions of women worldwide including oratory and
performance as well as literature in the more conventional sense.
Contributors include Jane Flax on "Postmodernism and Gender
Relations in Feminist Theory," Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham on
"African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race,"
Paula Bennett on "Female Sexual Imagery and Feminist Psychoanalytic
Theory," Leslie Rabine on "Social Gender and Symbolic Gender in the
Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston," Joyce Zonana on "Feminist
Orientalism and the Structure of Jane Eyre," Jane Desmond on
"Cultural Imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's 'Radha' of 1906," Terri
Brint Joseph on "Poetry as a Strategy of Power: The Case of Riffian
Berber Women," Chikwenye Ogunyemi on "The Contemporary Black Female
Novelin English," and Sandra Zagarell on "Narrative of Community."
This collection is especially appropriate for scholars and students
of feminist literary criticism, women's studies, English, and
ethnic studies.
Essays were originally published in Signs: Journal of Women in
Culture and Society.
That literature is a form of social action has been an implicit
assumption of feminist literary criticism since its emergence in
academia some twenty-five years ago. This assumption has served not
only to heighten the awareness of gender construction and response
in literature, but also to redefine the process and goals of
literary criticism itself.
Three powerful interviews with writers of different nationalities
(Audre Lorde, Simone de Beauvoir, and Carmen Naranjo) introduce
topics echoed in the essays that follow: the interplay between
women's writing and feminist theory, the politics of writing, and
the roles of race, class, and sexual orientation in artistic
production. These issues are engaged on a theoretical level by
three essays that represent today's most prominent areas of concern
for feminist literary criticism. The theoretical perspectives
advanced in this anthology provide models for reading the
traditional expressions of women worldwide including oratory and
performance as well as literature in the more conventional sense.
Contributors include Jane Flax on "Postmodernism and Gender
Relations in Feminist Theory," Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham on
"African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race,"
Paula Bennett on "Female Sexual Imagery and Feminist Psychoanalytic
Theory," Leslie Rabine on "Social Gender and Symbolic Gender in the
Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston," Joyce Zonana on "Feminist
Orientalism and the Structure of Jane Eyre," Jane Desmond on
"Cultural Imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's 'Radha' of 1906," Terri
Brint Joseph on "Poetry as a Strategy of Power: The Case of Riffian
Berber Women," Chikwenye Ogunyemi on "The Contemporary Black Female
Novelin English," and Sandra Zagarell on "Narrative of Community."
This collection is especially appropriate for scholars and students
of feminist literary criticism, women's studies, English, and
ethnic studies.
Essays were originally published in Signs: Journal of Women in
Culture and Society.
Introduction Barbara Laslett, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres.
African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham From Servitude to Service Work:
Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive
Labor Evelyn Nakano Glenn The Occult of True Black Womanhood:
Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies Ann duCille Beyond
White and Other: Relationality and Narratives of Race in Feminist
Discourse Susan Stanford Friedman Gender as Seriality: Thinking
about Women as a Social Collective Iris Marion Young Feminist
Fiction and the Uses of Memory Gayle Greene Gender as a Personal
and Cultural Construction Nancy J. Chodorow The Construction of
Subjectivity and the Paradox of Resistance: Reintegrating Feminist
Anthropology and Psychology Maureen A. Mahoney, Barbara Yngvesson.
Purity, Impurity, and Separation Maria Lugones Differences and
Identities: Feminism and the Albuquerque Lesbian Community Trisha
Franzen Getting It Right Marilyn Frye When a Looker Becomes a
Bitch: Lisa Olson, Sport, and the Heterosexual Matrix Lisa Disch,
Mary Jo Kane. "The Teachers, They All Had Their Pets": Concepts of
Gender, Knowledge, and Power Wendy Luttrell About the Contributors
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