Table of Contents
Women and madness: the critical phallacy / Shoshana Felman Infection in the sentence: the woman writer and the anxiety of authorship / Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar A mindless man-driven theory machine: intellectuality, sexuality, and the institution of criticism / James J. Sosnoski The highs and lows of black feminist criticism / Barbara Christian Confinements: the domestic in the discourses of upper-middle-class pregnancy / Helena Michie What has never been: an overview of lesbian feminist literary criticism / Bonnie Zimmerman Anomalousness ; Aesthetics / Joanna Russ Treason our text: feminist challenges to the literary canon / Lillian S. Robinson Caste, class, and canon / Paul Lauter Reflections on black women writers: revising the literary canon / Nellie McKay Dancing through the minefield: some observations on the theory, practice, and politics of a feminist literary criticism / Annette Kolodny Archimedes and the paradox of feminist criticism / Myra Jehlen A criticism of our own: autonomy and assimilation in Afro-American and feminist literary theory / Elaine Showalter Recycling: race, gender, and the practice of theory / Deborah E. McDowell The wild zone thesis as gloss in Chicana literary study / Cordelia Chávez Candelaria Storming the toolshed / Jane Marcus The madwoman and her languages: why I don't do feminist literary theory / Nina Baym Feminist politics: what's home got to do with it? / Biddy Martin, Chandra Talpade Mohanty Black feminist theory and the representation of the other / Valerie Smith Upping the anti [sic] in feminist theory / Teresa de Lauretis The laugh of the Medusa / Hélène Cixous This sex which is not one / Luce Irigaray Writing the body: toward an understanding of l'Écriture féminine / Ann Roselind Jones Mama's baby, papa's maybe: an American grammar book / Hortense J. Spillers Women of color writers and feminist theory / Margaret Homans Another cause: castration / Luce Irigaray Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey The situation of the looker-on: gender, narration, and gaze in Wuthering Heights / Beth Newman When Virginia looked at Vita, what did she see; or Lesbian: feminist: woman : what's the differ(e/a)nce? / Elizabeth Meese The father's seduction / Jane Gallop Introduction from Between men ; Gender asymmetry and erotic triangles / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Sylvia Townsend Warner and the counterplot of lesbian fiction / Terry Castle Male heroes and female sex objects: sexism in Spike Lee's Malcolm X / Bell Hooks Introduction: on the politics of literature / Judith Fetterley The readers and their romances / Janice Radway Reading ourselves: toward a feminist theory of reading / Patrocinio P. Schweickart Feminism, new historicism, and the reader / Wai-Chee Dimock Constructing the subject: deconstructing the text / Catherine Belsey Toward a feminist narratology / Susan S. Lanser Apostrophe, animation, and abortion / Barbara Johnson Gender in Bakhtin's Carnival / Dale Bauer When a long poem is a big poem: self-authorizing strategies in women's twentieth-century long poems / Susan Stanford Friedman Kochinninako in academe: three approaches to interpreting a Keres Indian tale / Paula Gunn Allen La conciencia de la mestiza: towards a new consciousness / Gloria Anzaldúa I'm here: an Asian American woman's response / Amy Ling The truth that never hurts: black lesbians in fiction in the 1980s / Barbara Smith Feminist and ethnic theories in Asian American literature / Shirley Geok-lin Lim Black writing, white reading: race and the politics of feminist interpretation / Elizabeth Abel Women's time / Julia Kristeva Power and the ideology of woman's sphere / Judith Lowder Newton Three women's texts and a critique of imperialism / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Some call it fiction: on the politics of domesticity / Nancy Armstrong The queen of America goes to Washington city: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill / Lauren Berlant Pandora's box: subjectivity, class and sexuality in socialist feminist criticism / Cora Kaplan Romance in the age of electronics: Harlequin Enterprises / Leslie Rabine I shop therefore I am: is there a place for Afro-American culture in commodity culture? / Susan Willis Discourses of gender, ethnicity and class in Chicano literature / Rosaura Sánchez Reading woman (reading) / Mary Jacobus Masculinity as excess in Vietnam films: the father/son dynamic of American culture / Susan Jeffords Creation by the father's fiat: paternal narrative, sexual anxiety, and the deauthorizing designs of Absalom, absalom! / Joseph A. Boone Pedagogy and sexuality / Joseph Litvak Me and my shadow / Jane Tompkins Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman warrior: filiality and woman's autobiographical storytelling / Sidonie Smith Authorizing the autobiographical / Shari Benstock The long goodbye: against personal testimony, or an infant grifter grows up / Linda S. Kauffman