Feminist engagements
by Shelley Fisher Fishkin · 2009
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Offers historically-grounded, feminist interventions into American literary history by one of the country's leading scholars in American Studies. Integrating criticism, biography, social history, popular culture, and personal narrative ,explores the poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century. These charismatic, readable essays range from explorations of feminist humor and chutzpah, to meditations on the personal and the political, to examinations of feminists challenges to cultural paradigms. From publisher description.
Feminism and literatureSex differencesFeminism in literatureIntellectual lifeWomen, White, in literatureHistory and criticismAmerican literatureWomen authorsMinority authorsWomen and literatureMinority women in literatureAuthorship