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Contents 8
Notes on contributors 12
Introduction 17
Feminist literary theories 23
The violence of the letter 37
Feminist theory without guarantees 49
Notes 63
Part 1. Problematics emerge 70
1. On canons: anxious history and the rise of black feminist literary studies 72
Further reading 111
Notes 112
2. Pleasure, resistance, and a feminist aesthetics of reading 119
In the beginning was resistance and inventiveness: or, when canons were critiqued, reshuffled, and revised 121
Making women of the world: or, how a thirteenth-century guide for incarcerated women helped to create an inquisitional culture and its new subjects 129
Further reading 149
Notes 151
3 The literary politics of feminist theory 159
Further reading 197
Notes 199
Part 2. In feminism’s wake: genre, period, form 206
4. What feminism did to novel studies 208
What is “the” novel? 210
How and when did the novel begin? 216
The great gender inversion 220
Culture rising 224
The scramble for cultural capital 230
Romancing the lack 236
Further reading 240
Notes 241
5. Autobiography and the feminist subject 247
The subject of autobiography 247
Feminist confessions 251
Material subjects 263
Further reading 273
Notes 275
6. Modernisms and feminisms 283
A new cup and saucer 301
Further reading 309
Notes 310
7. French feminism’s ecriture feminine 317
Contexts: de Beauvoir to Derrida; from and against 321
Is it French, is it feminist, is it theory? 331
Ecriture: poetry or pathology 335
The feminine: essence or difference 339
Further reading 349
Notes 350
8. Feminism and popular culture 354
The development of cultural studies 356
The analysis of popular culture 359
Approaches and applications: gender ideology in popular fiction 360
Images of women 361
Images for women 363
High literary culture: reading and narrative strategies 364
Genre and adolescence 367
Popular music and popular television 372
Women’s experience of film 374
Postfeminism 378
Chicklit fiction 385
Further reading 388
Notes 389
Part 3. Feminist theories in play 396
9. Poststructuralism: theory as critical self-consciousness 398
Bracketing referentiality: poststructuralism’s inward turn 405
Knowledge/power: the alternative offered by Foucault 412
Poststructuralism and feminism: to be continued 418
Further reading 424
Notes 425
10. Feminists theorize colonial/postcolonial 429
Further reading 465
Notes 466
11. On common ground?: feminist theory and critical race studies 471
“Ain’t I a black woman?”: African American feminism and critical race theory 473
A „bridge” between: multicultural feminisms in the United States 487
“I have no country”: critical race feminism and the question of citizenship 500
Subjects and citizens: black British feminism and the politics of the state 505
Empire’s citizens 511
Further reading 519
Notes 520
12. Feminist psychoanalytic literary criticism 528
Excitement 528
Reading difference 531
Sexual difference 540
Feminocentric reading 546
Incitement 556
Reading on 563
Further reading 564
Notes 566
13. Queer politics, queer theory, and the future of “identity”: spiralling out of culture 571
Further reading 607
Notes 608
Index 612