Literary feminisms

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Literary Feminisms provides a map for charting the difficult waters that feminist theories have created in literary studies. Ruth Robbins shows the reasons for the development of feminist literary critiques, explains the difficulties and exposes some of feminism's blindspots. A wide range of theorists is discussed, ranging from Wollstonecraft to Kristeva, showing the ways in which materialist, psychoanalytic and literary accounts of feminist thinking creatively intersect. Through a series of exemplary readings, of texts such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Yellow Wallpaper, she also points out how the student reader can begin to make her or his own feminist criticism, and can learn to engage with both the politics and poetics of the literature. Contents Introduction: Gestures towards Definitions Part I Liberal, Materialist and Socialist Literary Feminisms Images of Women Criticism The Woman as Writer: Forging Female Traditions Part II Psychoanalysis and / or Feminism? Julia Kristev a: Rewriting the Subject Mirror, Mirror Luce lrigaray and Reflections of and Feminine Cixous: Laughing at the Oppositions Part Ill Differences Viewing the Challenging Traditions of View and Differences: Female Part IV Reading the Own Stor ies: The Boys 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and The Picture of Dorian Mr Hyde ,Gray and Heart of Darkness Reading the Writing Wall : Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Yellow Wall-paper Afterword :the Wall The Mark Marking Differences , Marking on Time Annotated Bibliography Bibliography