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A question?
how now? a book written about the marginal, the "strung-out", decentered, in a stile one needs a very very expensive education to comprehend? on what side of the pasture are you on?
A landmark...
As you can already tell by the comments, there is a "clash of cultures" in the academy. It's between:
The Hindoo Empress Has No Sari
I expropriated this book from the Princeton History Department, where it was forlornly residing underneath a "Free To Anyone" sign. I got what I paid for. It's crap, and babble, and everything else that uniformly applies to anything written by a deconstructionist, structuralist, or similar academic mountebank. If you come across a copy, skim it for laughs. (Trust me: you won't have to get past the Introduction to find some uproariously awful sentences.) ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Archaeology / Anthropology    3. Emigration & Immigration    4. Feminism and literature    5. Feminist criticism    6. History & Surveys - Modern    7. Philosophy, Modern    8. Postcolonialism    9. Social Science    10. Sociology    11. Women and literature    12. Anthropology    13. Cultural studies    14. Literary theory    15. Social Science / General   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Feminism and literature    3. History    4. History and criticism    5. Literature - Classics / Criticism    6. Literature, Modern    7. Sociology    8. Women Authors    9. Women and literature    10. Women's Studies - General    11. Feminism    12. Literary studies: general   

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Culture    3. Feminism and literature    4. Feminist criticism    5. Feminist theory    6. Literary Criticism    7. Literature - Classics / Criticism    8. Social history    9. Sociology - General    10. Anthropology    11. Cultural studies    12. Literary studies: from c 1900 -   

Subjects:  1. 20th Century American Novel And Short Story    2. 20th century    3. American - General    4. American fiction    5. Feminism and literature    6. History    7. History and criticism    8. Literary Criticism    9. Literature - Classics / Criticism    10. Sociology    11. United States    12. Women As Authors (American Literature)    13. Women and literature    14. Women authors    15. American English    16. English    17. Feminism    18. Literary Criticism & Collections / American    19. Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -    20. USA    21. c 1960 to c 1970    22. c 1970 to c 1980    23. c 1980 to c 1990    24. c 1990 to c 2000   

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Subjects:  1. Feminist    2. Feminist literary criticism    3. Literary Criticism    4. Literature - Classics / Criticism    5. Semiotics & Theory    6. Sociology    7. Theory Of Literature    8. Women In Literature    9. English    10. FEMINIST THEORY    11. Feminism    12. Literary Criticism & Collections / Feminist Criticism    13. Literary studies: general    14. Literary theory    15. USA    16. United Kingdom, Great Britain   

Subjects:  1. 1640-1689    2. 17th century    3. African    4. American    5. Behn, Aphra,    6. Dramatic works    7. England    8. English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    9. Feminism and literature    10. History    11. Literary Criticism    12. Plays / Drama    13. Political and social views    14. Women and literature    15. Behn, Aphra    16. English    17. Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries    18. Theatre, drama   

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A great feminist reader
This is a wonderful collection of essays for anyone looking for an introduction to feminist theory, or simply for new ways to perceive and analyze the body.The bitesize samples of Judith Butler, CatharineMacKinnon, Audre Lorde, and bell hooks challenge the reader to confrontcontemporary issues such as rape, gender, and representations of women ofcolor in ways that are radically different from mainstream thought. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Body, Human, in literature    2. Feminism & Feminist Theory    3. Feminism and the arts    4. Feminist    5. Feminist literary criticism    6. Literary Criticism    7. Reference    8. Sex in literature    9. Sociology    10. Women Authors    11. Women in literature    12. Women's Studies - General    13. Cultural studies    14. Feminism    15. Literary Criticism & Collections / General   

Editorial Review

This classic of modern feminism is an ambitious attempt to trace certain present-day values back to cultural shifts of the 19th century. Historian Ann Douglas entwines the fate of American women, most notably those of the white middle class, with that of clergy marginalized by the rise in religious denominations and consequent dilution of their power base. No longer invited to wield influence in vital (some might say traditionally masculine) political and economic arenas, clergy were pushed toward more feminine spheres and rules of expression. Likewise, as growing numbers of middle-class white women lost their place as the indispensable center of household production, and many lower-class women became easily replaced industrial cogs, a none-too-subtle shift in perceptions about women's strengths and abilities occurred. Women lost voting rights and other legal privileges; barred from healing and midwifery, they were also less likely to appear in other increasingly male professions. Academies for wealthier girls imparted skills deemed to entice and soothe men without taxing supposedly tiny feminine brains; when Emma Willard offered geometry lessons to girls in the 1820s, one opponent harrumphed: "They'll be educating cows next." Douglas chronicles the rise of an overwhelmingly sentimental "feminization" of mass culture--in which writers of both sexes underscored popular convictions about women's weaknesses, desires, and proper place in the world--with erudite and well-argued scholarship. Read more

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Feminization made consumers of us all
This is a splendid book-Douglas shows how the loss of Christian faith, combined with the rise of industrialism, gave ministers and women (with too much time on their hands) common cause in seeking to "influence" culture. Thus was born the age of advertising and modern consumerism.
Tiresome, Uninformative
Bought this book as a spinoff to a seminar hoping for some insight into a complex subject. The common cause made between ineffectual clergy of the late 18th century and American women was interesting, but then the author lost herself (and her theme) in her exhausting review of obscure, forgettable literature. The phrase "deadly dull" comes to mind.
masterly
One can only imagine the work that has gone into this staggering piece of intellectual history - whose axis is the unforeseeable and fateful rise of the female public in American intellectual life, and contemporaneously the collapse of the old, muscular style of Protestant religiosity and intellect - from the kind and number of sources the author uses.She has apparently trawled through reams and piles of obscure newspapers and magazines, familiarized herself with writing most of us would be glad to avoid, learned to distinguish the various strands of an intellectual and publishing life which is, to modern America, as alien as imperial China or early Sumer.The result is tremendous: not only a resurrection of a past age that does it honour and justice (if anything, one seems to perceive, in this female scholar, a certain sympathy - even nostalgia - for the utra-male, activist, iron-faced world of the old Puritan thinkers, post-Jonathan Edwards and his likes), but a flood of light on the origins of our (not exclusively American) world and society.This simply cannot be praised too much; future historians will not be able to prescind from it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 19th Century American Literature    2. 19th century    3. American - General    4. American literature    5. Anthropology - Cultural    6. Feminism & Feminist Theory    7. Feminism and literature    8. History    9. History and criticism    10. Literary Criticism    11. Religion and literature    12. Sociology    13. United States    14. Women As Authors (American Literature)    15. Women Authors    16. Literary Criticism & Collections / Women Authors   

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Subjects:  1. African American authors    2. American - African American & Black    3. American literature    4. Black authors    5. English literature    6. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General    7. Feminism & Feminist Theory    8. Feminist    9. History and criticism    10. Literary Criticism    11. Sociology    12. Theory, etc    13. Women authors    14. Women's Studies - General    15. AFRICAN AMERICANS IN LITERATURE    16. AFRO-AMERICANS IN LITERATURE    17. AMERICAN LITERATURE_AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS_HISTORY AND CRITICISM    18. AMERICAN LITERATURE_AFRO-AMERICAN AUTHORS_HISTORY AND CRITICISM    19. AMERICAN LITERATURE_WOMEN AUTHORS    20. BLACKS IN LITERATURE    21. Black studies    22. ENGLISH LITERATURE_HISTORY AND CRITICISM    23. ENGLISH LITERATURE_WOMEN AUTHORS    24. FEMINISM AND LITERATURE    25. Feminism    26. Literary Criticism & Collections / General    27. WOMEN IN LITERATURE   

Subjects:  1. 1749-1806    2. 18th century    3. England    4. Femininity in literature    5. Feminism and literature    6. Gothic & Romance    7. History    8. Literary Criticism    9. Literature - Classics / Criticism    10. Poetic works    11. Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject    12. Smith, Charlotte Turner,    13. Women Authors    14. Women and literature    15. English    16. Literary Criticism & Collections / Women Authors    17. Poetry & poets: 19th century    18. c 1800 to c 1900   

Subjects:  1. 1759-1797    2. 18th century    3. Criticism and interpretation    4. England    5. English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    6. Feminism and literature    7. Gender Studies    8. History    9. Social Science    10. Sociology    11. Wollstonecraft, Mary,    12. Women and literature    13. Women's rights in literature    14. English    15. Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    16. Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries    17. Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century    18. Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -   

Subjects:  1. Feminism and theater    2. Feminist literary criticism    3. Performing Arts    4. Performing Arts/Dance    5. Theater - General    6. Performing Arts / Theater / General   

Subjects:  1. 1832-1888    2. 19th century    3. Alcott, Louisa May,    4. Books and reading    5. Children    6. Children's Literature - General    7. Children's stories, American    8. Essays    9. Feminism & Feminist Theory    10. Feminism and literature    11. General    12. History    13. History and criticism    14. Literary Criticism    15. Literature - Classics / Criticism    16. Little women    17. New England    18. United States    19. Alcott, Louisa May    20. American English    21. Children's literature studies: general    22. English    23. Literary Criticism & Collections / General    24. Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century    25. USA    26. Views on feminism    27. Women's studies   

Subjects:  1. 19th century    2. American poetry    3. Feminism and literature    4. General    5. History    6. History and criticism    7. Poetry    8. United States    9. Women and literature    10. Women authors    11. American English    12. American Language and Literature    13. Gender Studies    14. Literary Criticism / Poetry    15. Poetry & poets: 19th century    16. USA    17. Women's studies    18. c 1800 to c 1900   

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Rhetoric Retold: Retold
Glenn accomplishes what no other feminist author has ever attempted--she has written a history for rhetoric that includes women.Before we have seen separatist books about women in rhetoric, but never a book that places Sappho on an equal level with Homer.Glenn is the first to reintegrate women into an area of study where they have thus far been denied.Read more

Subjects:  1. Feminism and literature    2. General    3. History    4. Literary Criticism    5. Literature - Classics / Criticism    6. Rhetoric    7. Women and literature    8. Women authors    9. Women's Studies - General   

Subjects:  1. Books and reading    2. Children    3. Children's Literature - General    4. Children's literature    5. Feminist    6. Feminist literary criticism    7. History and criticism    8. Literary Criticism    9. Literature - Classics / Criticism    10. Children's literature studies: general    11. Literary Criticism & Collections / Feminist Criticism   

Subjects:  1. Feminism and literature    2. Feminist    3. Feminist literary criticism    4. General    5. History and criticism    6. Literary Criticism    7. Literature    8. Literature - Classics / Criticism    9. Theory, etc    10. Feminism    11. French    12. Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory    13. Literary studies: general    14. Literary theory   

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Delightful Scholarship
While reading a library's copy of The Cambridge Companion of Mary Wollstonecraft, I was gripped with a desire to own my own copy and promptly ordered it. Having worked with Wollstonecraft material, I found this collection of articles to provide the most informative and best supported coverage of Wollstonecraft's works and thought I have seen as yet. If you need a good scholarly introduction to Wollstonecraft studies, this is an excellent place to start. Claudia L. Johnson has edited an excellent collection of topical articles. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1759-1797    2. 18th century    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Criticism and interpretation    5. England    6. English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    7. Feminism and literature    8. Handbooks, manuals, etc    9. History    10. Literary    11. Literary Criticism    12. Wollstonecraft, Mary,    13. Women    14. Women and literature    15. British Isles    16. English    17. Gender studies    18. Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    19. Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries    20. Wollstonecraft, Mary,--1759-1797--Criticism and interpretation   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Asian - Chinese    3. Asian - General    4. Chinese literature    5. Feminism in literature    6. Feminist    7. History and criticism    8. Literary Criticism    9. Literature - Classics / Criticism    10. Women Authors    11. China    12. Literary studies: from c 1900 -   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Criticism and interpretation    3. Feminism and literature    4. History    5. History and criticism    6. Morrison, Toni    7. Morrison, Toni - Prose & Criticism    8. Religious fiction, American    9. Social Science    10. Sociology    11. United States    12. Women and literature    13. Women's Studies - General    14. English    15. Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -    16. Social Science / Women's Studies    17. USA