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Preface xii Acknowledgments xvi 1 Finding a Female Tradition Introduction 1 Extracts from: A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 9 A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing Elaine Showalter 11 'Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence' Adrienne Rich 15 Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory Chris Weedon 19 'The Rise of Black Feminist Literary Studies' Ann Ducille 21 'Race and Gender in the Shaping of the American Literary Canon: A Case Study from the Twenties' Paul Lauter 26 'Telling Feminist Stories' Clare Hemmings 33 Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodernist Culture Rita Felski 37 'Happy Families? Feminist Reproduction and Matrilineal Thought' Linda R. Williams 41 Literary Relations: Kinship and the Canon Jane Spencer 45 'Parables and Politics: Feminist Criticism in 1986' Nancy K. Miller 47 'What Women's Eyes See' Viviane Forrester 50 'Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy' Shoshana Felman 51 Writing Women's Literary History Margaret J. M. Ezell 52 The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain Betty A. Schellenberg 56 2 Women and Literary Production Introduction 61 Extracts from: A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 70 'Professions for Women' Virginia Woolf 75 Silences Tillie Olsen 77 The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar 82 'Writing Like a Woman: A Question of Politics' Terry Lovell 90 The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen Jane Spencer 93 'Emily Brontë in the Hands of Male Critics' Carol Ohmann 95 'Toward a Black Feminist Criticism' Barbara Smith 98 'Christina Rossetti: Diary of a Feminist Reading' Isobel Armstrong 103 'Conversations' Hélène Cixous Et Al. 106 'Mapping Contemporary Women's Fiction after Bourdieu' Mary Eagleton 110 Marketing Literature: The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain Claire Squires 115 The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins Graham Huggan 119 The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678-1730 Paula Mcdowell 123 'Black Woman Talk' Black Woman Talk Collective 126 'Introduction', Let It be Told: Essays by Black Women in Britain Lauretta Ngcobo 127 Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics Simone Murray 129 'Pushed to the Margins: The Slow Death and Possible Rebirth of the Feminist Bookstore' Kathryn Mcgrath 131 3 Gender and Genre Introduction 135 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 143 Literary Women Ellen Moers 145 'Femininity, Narrative and Psychoanalysis' Juliet Mitchell 147 Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel Nancy Armstrong 151 'Towards a Feminist Narratology' Susan S. Lanser 154 Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives Marilyn R. Farwell 158 Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms Robyn R. Warhol 161 'Introduction', Aurora Leigh and Other Poems Cora Kaplan 163 'Small Island People: Black British Women Playwrights' Meenakshi Ponnuswami 166 'Varieties of Women's Writing' Clare Brant 167 Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion Rosemary Jackson 172 Female Desire: Women's Sexuality Today Rosalind Coward 173 Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars Alison Light 177 The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism Nicola Humble 182 'Afterword: The New Woman's Fiction' Shari Benstock 186 Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Fiction Susan Sellers 187 4 Towards Definitions of Feminist Writing Introduction 191 '"This Novel Changes Lives": Are Women's Novels Feminist Novels? A Response to Rebecca O'Rourke's Article "Summer Reading"' Rosalind Coward 199 'Feminism and the Definition of Cultural Politics' Michèle Barrett 203 'What is Lesbian Literature? Forming a Historical Canon' Lillian Faderman 207 'American Feminist Literary Criticism: A Bibliographical Introduction' Cheri Register 210 'Introduction', Feminism Meets Queer Theory Elizabeth Weed 216 'Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism' Annette Kolodny 219 'Towards a Feminist Poetics' Elaine Showalter 222 Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory Toril Moi 225 Gynesis: Configurations of Woman and Modernity Alice A. Jardine 228 'Flight Reservations: The Anglo-American/French Divide in Feminist Criticism' Rachel Bowlby 230 'Social Criticism Without Philosophy: An Encounter Between Feminism and Postmodernism' Nancy Fraser And Linda J. Nicholson 234 'Mapping the Lesbian Postmodern' Robyn Wiegman 235 Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics Bell Hooks 238 Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism Madhu Dubey 241 Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter Susan Stanford Friedman 244 The Radical Aesthetic Isobel Armstrong 248 What is a Woman? And Other Essays Toril Moi 251 Undoing Gender Judith Butler 254 'The Race for Theory' Barbara Christian 257 'Woman Can Never Be Defined' Julia Kristeva 261 'Discursive Desire: Catherine Belsey's Feminism' Marysa Demoor And Jürgen Pieters 262 5 Writing, Reading and Difference Introduction 266 Literary Women Ellen Moers 275 Thinking about Women Mary Ellmann 277 'Writing Like a Woman' Peggy Kamuf 280 Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism Mary Jacobus 282 'Talking about Polylogue' Julia Kristeva 284 Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing Nancy K. Miller 286 The Resisting Reader Judith Fetterley 288 'Reading as a Woman' Jonathan Culler 291 'Reading Like a Man' Robert Scholes 294 'How to Read a "Culturally Different" Book' Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 296 The Woman Reader, 1837-1914 Kate Flint 300 Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England Jan Fergus 303 Reading Groups Jenny Hartley 306 'The Powers of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine' Luce Irigaray 308 'The Laugh of the Medusa' Hélène Cixous 311 'Castration or Decapitation?' Hélène Cixous 314 'Language and Revolution: The Franco-American Dis-connection' Domna C. Stanton 316 'Made in America: "French Feminism" in Academia' Claire Goldberg Moses 318 Hélène Cixous Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing Hélène Cixous And Mireille Calle-Gruber 321 6 Locating the Subject Introduction 325 'A Question of Subjectivity: An Interview' Julia Kristeva 333 'Femininity and Its Discontents' Jacqueline Rose 335 Critical Practice Catherine Belsey 340 What Does a Woman Want? Reading and Sexual Difference Shoshana Felman 343 A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire Janice A. Radway 347 'Sexual Difference and Collective Identities: The New Global Constellation' Seyla Benhabib 349 'Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory' Linda Alcoff 352 'Upping the Anti (Sic) in Feminist Theory' Teresa De Lauretis 355 Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference Diana Fuss 358 'A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s' Donna Haraway 361 Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza Gloria Anzaldúa 366 Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject Carole Boyce Davies 369 'The Straight Mind' Monique Wittig 372 Epistemology of the Closet Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 375 'Of OncoMice and FemaleMen: Donna Haraway on Cyborg Ontology' Kate Soper 378 7 Writing 'Glocal' Introduction 381 En-gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives Sangeeta Ray 389 Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities Avtar Brah 391 Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem Reina Lewis 393 'French Feminism in an International Frame' Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 396 'Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses' Chandra Talpade Mohanty 399 Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism Trinh T. Minh-Ha 402 'Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition' Sara Suleri 405 Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies Rey Chow 407 Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation Mary Louise Pratt 411 Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence: British Writing on Africa 1855-1902 Laura E. Franey 415 'Introduction', Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers Amal Amireh And Lisa Suhair Majaj 417 Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique Benita Parry 420 Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 Adrienne Rich 423 Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement Caren Kaplan 425 Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Context Anne Mcclintock 428 Transnational Women's Fiction: Unsettling Home and Homeland Susan Strehle 432 Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation Elleke Boehmer 434 Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory Rosi Braidotti 437 Bibliography of Extracts 439 Index 447

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