CONTENTS // About Feminisms, by ROBYN R. WARHOL AND DIANE PRICE HERNDL ix // Acknowledgments xix // INSTITUTIONS // SHOSHANA FELMAN, "Women and Madness: The Critical // Phallacy" (1975) 7 // SANDRA M. GILBERT and SUSAN GUBAR, "Infection in the Sentence: // The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship" (1979) 21 // JAMES J. SOSNOSKI, "A Mindless Man-driven Theory Machine: // Intellectuality, Sexuality, and the Institution of // Criticism" (1989) 33 // BARBARA CHRISTIAN, "The Highs and Lows of Black Feminist // Criticism" (1990) 51 // HELENA MICHIE, "Confinements: The Domestic in the // Discourses of Upper-Middle-Class Pregnancy" (1996) 57 // CANON // BONNIE ZIMMERMAN, "What Has Never Been: An Overview // of Lesbian Feminist Literary Criticism" (1981 ) 76 // JOANNA Russ, "Anomalousness" and "Aesthetics" from // How to Supress Women’s Writing (1983) 97 // LILLIAN S. ROBINSON, "Treason Our Text: Feminist Challenges // to the Literary Canon” (1983) /15 // PAUL LAUTER, "Caste, Class, and Canon" (1981/87) 129 // NELLIE MCKAY, "Reflections on Black Women Writers: // Revising the Literary Canon" (1987) 151 // PRACTICE // ANNETTE KOLODNY, "Dancing Through the Minefield: // Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics // of a Feminist Literary Criticism" (1980) 171 // vi CONTENTS // MYRA JEHLEN, "Archimedes and the Paradox of a // Feminist Criticism" (1981) // // ELAINE SHOWALTER, "A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy // and Assimilation in Afro-American and Feminist
Literary // Theory” (1989) // DEBORAH E. MCDOWELL, "Recycling: Race, Gender, and the // Practice of Theory" (1992) // CORDELIA CHAVEZ CANDELARIA, "The â€�Wild Zone’ Thesis as // Gloss in Chicana Literary Study" (1993) // 0 1 // CONFLICTS // JANE MARCUS, "Storming the Toolshed" (1982 ) 263 // Nina BAYM, "The Madwoman and Her Languages: // Why I Don’t Do Feminist Literary Theory" (1984) 279 // BIDDY MARTIN and CHANDRA TALPADE MOHANTY, "Feminist // Politics: What’s Home Got to Do with It?" (1986) 293 // VALERIE Smith, "Black Feminist Theory and the Representation // of theâ€�Other" (1989) 311 // TERESA de LAURETIS, "Upping the Anti (sic) in // Feminist Theory” (1990) 326 // BODY // HELENE Cixous, "The Laugh of the Medusa" (1975) 347 // LUCE IRIGARAY, "This Sex Which Is Not One" from // This Sex Which Is Not One (1977) 363 // Ann Rosalind Jones, "Writing the Body: Toward an // Understanding of l’Ecriture feminine" (1981) 370 // HORTENSE J. SPILLERS, "Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: // An American Grammar Book" (1987 ) 384 // MARGARET HOMANS, "â€�Women of Color’ Writers and // Feminist Theory” (1994) 406 // GAZE // LUCE IRIGARAY, "Another â€�Cause’-Castration” from // Speculum of the Other Woman (1974) 430 // LAURA MULVEY, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975) 438 // BETH Newman, "The Situation of the Looker-On’: // Gender, Narration, and Gaze in Wuthering Heights" (1990) 449 // Elizabeth
MEESE, "When Virginia Looked at Vita, // W hat Did She See; or, Lesbian: Feminist: Woman- // What’s the Differ(e/a)nce?" (1992) 467 // DESIRE // JANE GALLOP, "The Father’s Seduction” from // The Daughter’s Seduction (1982) 489 // CONTENTS vii // // Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Introduction” and "Gender // Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles” from Between Men: // English Literature and Male Homosexual Desire (1985) 507 // TERRY Castle, "Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Counterplot // of Lesbian Fiction” (1993) 532 // bell hooks, "Male Heroes and Female Sex Objects: // Sexism in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X” (1993) 555 // READING // JUDITH FETTERLEY, "Introduction: On the Politics of // Literature” (1978) 564 // JANICE Radway, "The Readers and Their Romances” from // Reading the Romance (1984) 574 // Patrocinio P. SCHWEICKART, "Reading Ourselves: // Toward a Feminist Theory of Reading" (1986) 609 // WAI-CHEE DIMOCK, "Feminism, New Historicism, // and the Reader” (1991 ) 635 // DISCOURSE // Catherine BELSEY, "Constructing the Subject: // Deconstructing the Text" (1985) 657 // SUSAN S. LANSER, "Toward a Feminist Narratology" (1986) 674 // Barbara Johnson, "Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion" (1986) 694 // Dale BAUER, "Gender in Bakhtin’s Carnival" from // Feminist Dialogics (1988) 708 // SUSAN Stanford Friedman, "When a â€�Long’ Poem Is a â€�Big’ Poem: // Self-Authorizing Strategies in Women’s Twentieth-Century
// â€�Long Poems’(1990) 721 // ETHNICITY // PAULA GUNN Allen, "Kochinnenako in Academe: // Three Approaches to Interpreting a Keres Indian Tale" // from The Sacred Hoop (1986) 746 // Gloria Anzaldua, "La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a // New Consciousness” (1987) 765 // Amy Ling, "I’m Here: An Asian American Woman’s // Response”(1987) 776 // Barbara Smith, "The Truth That Never Hurts: Black Lesbians // in Fiction in the 1980s" (1990) 784 // Shirley GEOK-LIN Lim, "Feminist and Ethnic Theories in // Asian American Literature” (1993) 807 // ELIZABETH Abel, "Black Writing, White Reading: Race and // the Politics of Feminist Interpretation” (1993) 827 // vi i i CONTENTS // HISTORY // JULIA KRISTEVA, "Women’s Time" (1981) // JUDITH LOWDER NEWTON, "Power and the Ideology of // â€�Woman’s Sphere’" from Women, Power, and Subversion: // Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860 (1981) // GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK, "Three Women’s Texts and // a Critique of Imperialism" (1985) // NANCY ARMSTRONG, "Some Call It Fietion: On the Polities of // Domesticity" (1990) // LAUREN BERLANT, "The Queen of America Goes to Washington // City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill" (1993) // 0022 Co // STAS 2 // CLASS // CORA KAPLAN, "Pandora’s Box: Subjectivity, Class and // Sexuality in Socialist Feminist Criticism" (1985) 956 // Leslie RABINE, "Romance in the Age of Electronics: // Harlequin Enterprises” (1985)
976 // SUSAN Willis, "I Shop Therefore I Am: Is There a Place for // Afro-American Culture in Commodity Culture?" (1989) 992 // ROSAURA SANCHEZ, "Discourses of Gender, Ethnicity and Class // in Chicano Literature” (1992) 1009 // MEN // MARY JACOBUS, "Reading Woman (Reading)" from // Reading Woman (1987) 1029 // SUSAN JEFFORDS, "Masculinity as Excess in Vietnam Films: // The Father/Son Dynamic of American Culture" (1988) 1046 // Joseph A. Boone, "Creation by the Father’s Fiat: Paternal // Narrative, Sexual Anxiety, and the Deauthorizing Designs // of Absalom, Absalom!" (1989) 1068 // Joseph LITVAK, "Pedagogy and Sexuality" (1995) 1087 // AUTOBIOGRAPHY // Jane Tompkins, "Me and My Shadow" (1987) 1103 // SIDONIE Smith, "Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior: // Filiality and Woman’s Autobiographical Storytelling" from // A Poetics of Women’s Autobiography (1987) 1117 // SHARI BENSTOCK, "Authorizing the Autobiographical" (1988) 1138 // LINDA S. KAUFFMAN, "The Long Goodbye: Against Personal // Testimony, or an Infant Grifter Grows Up" (1992) 1155 // About the Authors // Alternative Arrangements for Feminisms // Author/Title Index // Text Permissions // MS