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Around 1981 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https ://archive. org/detai ls/around 1981 academ0000gal l_y4a0 Around 1981 Academic Feminist Literary Theory Jane Gallop Routledge New York• London Published in 1992 by Routledge An imprint of Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc. 29 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 Published in Great Britain by Routledge I I New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE Copyright © 1992 by Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc. Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gallop, Jane, 1952- Around 1981 : academic feminist literary theory / Jane Gallop. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-415-90189-8.-ISBN 0-4 I 5-90 I 90-1 (pbk.) Feminist literary criticism. I. Title. PN98.W64G34 1991 80l'.95'082- dc20 91-24137 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Gallop, Jane, 1952- Around 1981 academic feminist literary theory. I. Title 820.99287 ISBN 0-415-90189-8 ISBN 0-4I5-90190-1 pbk To my Students: The bright, hot, hip (young) women who fire my thoughts, my loins, my prose. I write this to move, to please, to shake you. Note on Permissions Chapter one is a substantially revised version of "The Difference Within," which appeared in Critical Inquiry, Vol. 8, no. 4 (1982); Chapter two is a revision of "The Problem of Definition," which appeared in Genre, Vol. XX, no. 2 (1987); Chapter four originally appeared as "The Monster and the Mirror: The Feminist Critic's Psychoanalysis" in Femi nism and Psychoanalysis, Feldstein and Roof eds., published by Cor nell University Press (1989); Chapter five is a revised version of"Reading the Mother Tongue," which first appeared in Critical Inquiry, Vol. l 0, no. 2 (1988). Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint. Contents Introduction 1 I. Around 1981 1. The Difference Within (Writing and Sexual Difference) 13 2. The Problem of Definition (The New Feminist Criticism) 21 II. Sidetracks 3. "French Feminism" (L'Arc 61) 41 4. The Monster in the Mirror (Yale French Studies 62) 48 5. Reading the Mother Tongue (The (M)other Tongue) 57 6. The Coloration of Academic Feminism (The Poetics of Gender) 67 Ill. Going Back 7. Writing About Ourselves (Images of Women in Fiction) 77 8. An Idea Presented Before Its Time (Feminist literary Criticism) 101 9. A Contradiction in Terms (Feminist Criticism) 119 N. Going On (In) 10. Tongue Work (Conjuring) 143 11. The Attraction of Matrimonial Metaphor (Making a Difference) 177 12. History is Like Mother (Feminist Issues in Literary Scholarship) 206 MeMo~ 240 Notes 245 Index 273
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