Still mad, American women writers and the feminist imagination, 1950-2020, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
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Still mad, American women writers and the feminist imagination, 1950-2020, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-412) and index
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Still mad
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bibliography
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1196173051
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Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
Sub title
American women writers and the feminist imagination, 1950-2020
Summary
A brilliant, sweeping history of the contemporary women's movement told through the lives and works of the literary women who shaped it. Forty years after their first groundbreaking work of feminist literary theory, The Madwoman in the Attic, award-winning collaborators Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar map the literary history of feminism's second wave. From its stirrings in the midcentury--when Sylvia Plath, Betty Friedan, and Joan Didion found their voices and Diane di Prima, Lorraine Hansberry, and Audre Lorde discovered community in rebellion--to a resurgence in the new millennium in the writings of Alison Bechdel, Claudia Rankine, and N. K. Jemisin, Gilbert and Gubar trace the evolution of feminist literature. They offer lucid, compassionate, and piercing readings of major works by these writers and others, including Adrienne Rich, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Susan Sontag, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Toni Morrison. Activists and theorists like Nina Simone, Gloria Steinem, Andrea Dworkin, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Judith Butler also populate these pages as Gilbert and Gubar examine the overlapping terrain of literature and politics in a comprehensive portrait of an expanding movement. As Gilbert and Gubar chart feminist gains--including creative new forms of protests and changing attitudes toward gender and sexuality--they show how the legacies of second wave feminists, and the misogynistic culture they fought, extend to the present. In doing so, they celebrate the diversity and urgency of women who have turned passionate rage into powerful writing. --, From dust jacket
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- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Écrits de femmes américains + Histoire et critique
- Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Femmes et littérature -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 21e siècle
- American literature + Women authors + History and criticism
- Femmes et littérature -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
- Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Littérature américaine -- 21e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Écrits de femmes américains + Histoire et critique
- Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Femmes et littérature -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 21e siècle
- American literature + Women authors + History and criticism
- Femmes et littérature -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
- Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Littérature américaine -- 21e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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