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1	The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, Volume 2: The Traditions in English more books like this by Professor Sandra M Gilbert (Editor), Professor Susan Gubar (Editor) add to wishlist Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of women's writing in English. see all copies from $21.28! new only from $32.52! \| SVS
2	Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory more books like this by Toril Moi add to wishlist Written for readers with little knowledge of the subject, this classic study nevertheless makes its own intervention into key debates, arguing provocatively for a commitedly political and theoretical criticism as against merely textual or apolitical approaches. With a new afterword in this edition, Sexual/Textual Politics is a brilliantly ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.16! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism more books like this by Robyn R Warhol (Editor), Diane Price Herndl (Editor) add to wishlist A comprehensive anthology now fully revised and expanded to bring it up-to-date with current feminist thinking, the volume includes classic and representative essays from the mid-seventies to the mid-nineties. The sections are arranged thematically to reflect the core issues of feminist literary theory and critical practice. see all copies from $2.14! new only from $24.90! \| first editions
4	Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend more books like this by Graham Russel Hodges add to wishlist Anna May Wong is undoubtedly, one of the most well-known and most popular Chinese-American actresses ever to have graced the silver screen. Between 1919 and 1960, she starred in over 50 movies. She shared equal billing with Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Marlene Dietrich and Werner Oland. Her life, though, is almost the prototypical story of an immigrant's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Feminist Literary Theory more books like this by Mary Eagleton add to wishlist Is there a distinctive women's tradition in literature? Do women write differently from men? What does it mean to define a piece of writing as 'feminist'? Do women encounter particular problems in becoming writers? These are among the many questions addressed, debated and illuminated in this new edition of Mary Eagleton's classic reader in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $36.95! \| first editions \| SVS
6	From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers more books like this by Marina Warner add to wishlist Marina Warner looks at storytelling, at its practitioners and images in art, legend, and history - from the prophesying enchantresses who lure men to a false paradise to jolly Mother Goose, with her masqueraders in the real world, from sibyls and the Queen of Sheba to Angela Carter. The storytellers are frequently women (or were until men like ... see all copies from $15.85! new only from $177.07! \| first editions
7	Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory more books like this by Professor Katie Conboy (Editor), Professor Nadia Medina (Editor), Professor Sarah Stanbury (Editor) add to wishlist This work comprises a collection of influential readings in feminist theory. It is divided into four sections: "Reading the Body"; "Bodies in Production", which examines the representation of the female body as a site for objectification and as a critical spectator; "The Body Speaks"; and "Body on Stage" which traces the female body through the ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $15.90! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Woman to Woman more books like this by Marguerite Duras, Katharine A Jensen (Translator), Xaviere Gauthier add to wishlist In the summer of 1973, the journalist Xaviere Gauthier interviewed the writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras for an article in "Le Monde". The meeting began a productive friendship between the two women that included the recording of four more interviews. They spoke of writing, literature, criticism, film, madness, sex, desire, alienation, Marxism ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Feminization of American Culture more books like this by Ann Douglas add to wishlist The Feminization of American Culture is a significant study of the domination of late nineteenth-century American culture by a feminine ethic and spirit. As religion lost its hold on the public mind, clergymen and educated women, powerless in the male-dominated industrial society, banded together to have a profound effect on the only areas still ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.39! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Simone Weil Reader more books like this by Simone Weil, George Panichas (Editor) add to wishlist a selection of writings by Simone Weil, a spiritual writer, confronting the spiritual and physical upheaval of the world she lived in. see all copies from $7.00! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
11 view cover	But Enough about Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives more books like this by Professor Nancy K Miller add to wishlist Through the memoirs of contemporaries and pieces of her autobiography, Nancy Miller explores the unexpected ways that the stories of other people's lives give meaning to our own. "But Enough About Me" is a group biography, or even an ethnography, of women, primarily middle-class and urban, now in their fifties and sixties. The book also mounts a ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $13.46! \| first editions
12 view cover	Feminisms, Revised Edition: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism more books like this by Robyn R Warhol (Editor), Diane Price Herndl (Editor) add to wishlist "Everything you might want to know about the history and practice of feminist criticism in North America". -Feminist Bookstore News "Admirably comprehensive, intelligently organized and introduced, with a wide array of challenging yet accessible essays.... For the theoretically inclined, this would be an ideal book to take to a desert island", -- ... see all copies from $5.90! new only from $32.07! \| SVS
13	Gloriana's Face: Women, Public and Private, in the English Renaissance more books like this by S P Cerasano add to wishlist This collection of original essays focuses on the dichotomy between the public and private worlds of women from the early Renaissance to the 1650s. Contributors explore issues relating to feminist studies, gender criticism and women's history, as well as literature, the theatre, art history and the social history of ideas. The essays are arranged ... see all copies from $4.06! new only from $5.98! \| signed copies
14 view cover	The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction more books like this by Judith Fetterley add to wishlist "Fetterley's questions are often so crucial, her observations repeatedly so acute, that they force us to ask how we avoided them in the past." -- Women's Studies International Quarterly ..". thoughtful, informed, and well written." -- Choice see all copies from $2.09! new only from $24.60! \| first editions \| SVS
15	From the Center more books like this by Lucy R Lippard add to wishlist see all copies from $3.23! new only from $45.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Outside in the Teaching Machine more books like this by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak add to wishlist In this book, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - teacher, feminist, cultural critic, literary theorist - addresses the crisis of multiculturalism. How are debates over the canon, ethnicity, Third World feminism, and the new cultural studies shaping our understanding of "culture"? One of the most influential scholars in critical theory today, Spivak's ... see all copies from $7.19! new only from $18.06! \| SVS
17 view cover	Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader more books like this by Professor Sandra M Gilbert, Professor Susan Gubar add to wishlist Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's newest collaboration, Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader, is the first collection to trace the historical evolution of feminist writing about literature in English from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. see all copies from $20.42! new only from $31.20! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory more books like this by Ellen Rooney (Editor) add to wishlist Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented through language. This lively and thought-provoking ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $12.39! \| SVS
19 view cover	Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman more books like this by Penelope Deutscher (Editor), Professor Kelly Oliver (Editor), Jean-Luc Nancy (Foreword by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.12! \| first editions
20 view cover	Virginia Woolf as Feminist more books like this by Naomi Black add to wishlist Virginia Woolf as Feminist claims Woolf's radical and political version of feminism and activism is most explicitly laid out in her nonfiction text "Three Guineas." see all copies from $5.54! new only from $15.26! \| SVS
21 view cover	Feminism and Sexuality: A Reader more books like this by Professor Stevi Jackson (Editor), Professor Sue Scott (Editor) add to wishlist From bell hooks's incisive look at the scapegoating of black men as archetypal racists to Andrea Dworkin's scathing statement on pornography as violence against women, this anthology is the first to fully represent the range of contemporary perspectives on one of the most fiercely contested areas in feminist thought. In Feminism and Sexuality, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.20! \| SVS
22	The Feminist Companion to Mythology more books like this by Carolyne Larrington add to wishlist A feminist examination of world mythologies--a thorough survey of myth for and about women--with wide-ranging contributions grouped geographically and essays that evaluate mythic characters and compare cultures. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.98! \| first editions
23	The Walled Up Wife more books like this by Alan Dundes (Editor) add to wishlist A casebook of interpretations of the ballad "The Walled-Up Wife". Some contributors offer competing nationalistic claims concerning the ballad's origins, Ruth Mandel examines gender and power issues in the ballad, and lyubomira Parpulova-Gribble presents a structuralist interpretation. see all copies from $4.50! new only from $5.29! \| first editions
24	New Feminist Criticism more books like this by Elaine Showalter (Editor) add to wishlist Shows how feminist critics have drawn attention to the importance of sexual difference in the experience of reading and interpretation. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25 view cover	Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature & Difference more books like this by Diana Fuss add to wishlist What is the nature of difference? is there an essential femininity? an essential blackness? an essential gayness? Is 'women's experience' essentially different from that of men? Is the difference of 'race' socially constructed? Is 'homosexuality' a function of nature or culture? On such key issues the lines of debate are being drawn: the ... see all copies from $4.97! new only from $28.52! \| SVS

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