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Blurring the borders between literature, journalism, essay, history, memoir and short story, LAS NALGAS DE JLO is a non-fiction collection of columns, articles, reviews, and poems, most written by Renaud Gonz#65533;lez between 1995-2005 when she was an independent columnist for the San Antonio Express. Divided into eight chapters with such provocative headings as "They Say I'm No Lady," "No Te Dejes/My Line in the Sand," "Pray For Us Women," "Forget...

In the landmark 1991 edition of Feminisms, Robyn Warhol and Diane Price Herndl assembled the most comprehensive collection of American and British feminist literary criticism ever published. In this revised edition, the editors have updated the volume, in keeping with the expanding parameters of feminist literary discourse. With the inclusion of more than two dozen new essays, along with a major reorganization of the sections in which they appear,...

"New perspectives on the work of five prominent male playwrights in the modern American canon."--Jacket.

For almost a century critics of George Bernard Shaw's dramatic works have accepted the characterization of Shaw as an artist and thinker well ahead of his time with regard to social issues - women's liberation in particular. Since the first wave of feminist criticism in the 1960s and 1970s, however, very little effort has been made to examine Shaw's works in the light of the most recent and challenging developments in feminist theory and gender studies....

The astonishing success of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's novel "Herland" years after it was written made its author famous -- but not for the first time. At the turn of the century she was one of America's most celebrated women writers. Ann J. Lane gives a penetrating account of Gilman's troubled but ultimately triumphant life. Despite difficulties and her recurrent depressions, Gilman forged not only a happy second marriage but also a major body of...

Employing surprising juxtapositions, The Feminist Difference looks at fiction by black writers from a feminist/psychoanalytic perspective: at poetry from Phillis Wheatley to Baudelaire and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore; and at feminism and law, particularly in the work of Patricia Williams and the late Mary Joe Frug. Toni Morrison and Sigmund Freud, John Keats and Jane Campion, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nella Larson and Heinz...

Between 1880 and 1920, the New Woman novel outraged "ladies," rallied women's rights activists, and inspired women readers and writers to harness an emerging popular literary market for their own political purposes. British author and activist Sarah Grand (1854-1943) took center stage, popularizing the term New Woman, marching for suffrage, lecturing from platforms in Britain and America, and publishing fiction and essays that challenged the most...

In the 1970s, feminists focused critical attention on fairy tales & broke the spell that had enchanted readers for centuries, by exposing the role of the fairy tale in the cultural struggle over gender. This book revisits feminist criticism & offers a new evaluation of its merits.

"This collection of fourteen new essays on Gilman's mixed legacy - her vision for a truly humane, egalitarian world alongside her persistent presentation of class, ethnic, and racial stereotypes - underscores the contemporary relevance of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935). Gilman enjoyed a worldwide reputation as a writer, lecturer, and socialist, and her prodigious output (novels, stories, poetry, lectures, journalism, theoretical works) stands...