Women's liberation and literature /

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Author / Creator:Showalter, Elaine, compiler.
Imprint:New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1971]
©1971
Description:ix, 338 pages ; 22 cm
Language:English
Subject:Feminism.
Women and literature.
Femmes - Histoire et condition des femmes.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Femmes -- Histoire et condition des femmes.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Feminism.
Women and literature.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2021181
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ISBN:0155961950
9780155961951
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:Examples of fiction, poetry and drama dealing with the feminine experience and historical, psychological and sociological statements about women.
Other form:Online version: Showalter, Elaine. Women's liberation and literature
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Major texts of feminism. Observations on the state of degradation to which woman is reduced by various causes / Mary Wollstonecraft ; From The subjection of women / John Stuart Mill
  • Part 2. Literature by and about women. A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen ; From Aurora Leigh / Elizabeth Barrett Browning ; For my lover returning to his wife / Anne Sexton ; The abortion / Anne Sexton ; Housewife / Anne Sexton ; Lesbos / Sylvia Plath ; Mr. Durant / Dorothy Parker ; Cruel and barbarous treatment / Mary McCarthy
  • Part 3. Literary criticism. The lady novelists / George Henry Lewes ; From A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf ; The subjection of women / Elizabeth Hardwick ; Phallic criticism / Mary Ellmann ; No important woman writer / Hortense Calisher
  • Part 4. Women and psychology. Some aspects of woman's psyche / Marynia F. Farnham and Ferdinand Lundberg ; The sexual solipsism of Sigmund Freud / Betty Friedan ; Psychology constructs the female, or the fantasy life of the male psychologist / Naomi Weisstein
  • Part 5. Contemporary views. Theory of sexual politics / Kate Millett ; How now Kate? / Ernest van den Haag ; Women's lib gets rough / Jonathan Yardley.