Feminist Engagements Forays into American Literature and Culture

, by Fishkin, Shelley Fisher

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ISBN: 9780312238582 | 0312238584
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/15/2009

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This book offers historically-grounded, feminist interventions into American literary history by one of the country's leading scholars of American Studies.

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Introduction	p. 1
Changing the Story
The Borderlands of Culture	p. 15
Making a Change	p. 33
Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic	p. 47
Changing the Story	p. 63
Essentialism and Its Discontents	p. 81
Men Reading and Writing Women/Women Reading and Writing Men
Dreiser and the Discourse of Gender	p. 91
Mark Twain and Women	p. 109
An Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston	p. 131
The Bondwoman's Escape	p. 139
Humor and Chutzpah
Feminist Humor and Charlotte Perkins Gilman	p. 149
Theresa Malkiel's Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker	p. 167
Erica Jong	p. 177
Epilogue	p. 203
Notes	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 235
Acknowledgments	p. 267
Index	p. 269
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Feminist Engagements Forays into American Literature and Culture

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

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