Feminist Literary Criticism

Looks at the work of a range of critics, including Elaine Showalter, Kate Millett, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the French feminists. The critical approaches encompass Marxist feminism and contemporary critical theory as well as other forms of discourse. It also provides an overview of the developments in feminist literary theory, and covers all the major debates within literary feminism, including "male feminism".

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A literature of their own, Elaine Showalter. Sexual, textural politics,Toril Moi. 2 .Replacing feminist criticism,Peggy Kamuf. The text's heroine - a feminist critic and her fictions,Nancy K.Miller. 3. About Chinese women,Julia Kristeva. French feminism in an international frame,Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. 4. The newly born woman, Helene Cixous and Catherine Clement. 5. Sexual politics, Kate Millett. Radical feminism and literature - rethinking Millett's "Sexual Politics",Cora Kaplan. 6. Is there a woman in this text?, Mary Jacobus. Male feminism, Stephen Heath. Selected bibliography Glossary of terms Index