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- literary Feminisms transitions General Editor: Julian Wolfreys Published Titles NEW HISTORICISM AND CULTURAL MATER IA USM John Brannigan POSTMODERN NARRATIVE THEORY Mark Currie MARXIST LITERARY AND CULTURAL THEORY Moyra Haslett LITERARY FEMINISMS Ruth Robbins DECONSTRUCTION • DERRIDA Julian Wolfreys Forthcoming Titles NATIONAL IDENTITY John Brannigan GENDER Alison Chapman IDEOLOGY James Decker QUEER THEORY Donald E. Hall POSTCOLONIAL THEORY Claire Jones RACE Brian G. Niro PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LITERATURE Andrew Roberts SUBJECTIVITY Ruth Robbins TRANSGRESSIONS Julian Wolfreys FORMALIST CRITICISM AND READER-RESPONSE THEORY Kenneth Womak and Todd Davis transitions Literary Feminisms Ruth Robbins St. Martin's Press New York LITERARY FEMINISMS Copyright© 2000 by Ruth Robbins All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without wriuen permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address: St. Martin's Press, Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 First published in the United States of America in 2000 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Printed in Hong Kong ISBN 0-312-22807-4 clothbound ISBN 0-312-22808-2 paperback Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Robbins, Ruth, 1965- Literary feminisms I Ruth Robbins. p. cm. - (Transitions) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-312-22807-4. - ISBN 0-312-22808-2 (pbk.) I. English literature- History and criticism-Theory, etc. 2. American literature- History and criticism-Theory, etc. 3. Feminist fiction-History and criticism- Theory, etc. 4. Feminism and literature- Great Britain. 5. Feminism and literature-United States. 6. Women and literature- Great Britain. 7. Women and literature- United States. 8. Feminist literary criticism. I. Title. II. Series: Transitions (St. Martin's Press) PR I I 9.R63 I 999 820'.82-dc21 99-43176 CfP Contents General Editor's Preface ix Acknowledgements xi A Note on Editions Used xii Introduction: Gestures towards Definitions 1 Part I Histories 19 1. Liberal, Materialist and Socialist Literary Feminisms 21 • Mary Wollstonecraft: vindicating the liberal-individual woman 26 • Analysing materialism: reading as a socialist feminist? 33 • There is always another side, always ... widening the view 40 2. Images of Women Criticsm 50 • The ways we looked - then 57 • Looking again at looking 65 • The ways we look now? 67 3. The Woman as Writer: Forging Female Traditions 70 71 • The 'problem' of quality • Early makers of female traditions: Patricia Mayer Spacks and Ellen Moers 75 • Developing the female tradition: Elaine Showalter, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar 83 • The limits of one female tradition 94 V vi Contents Part II (Psycho) Analyses 103 4. Psychoanalysis and/or feminism? 105 • Freud 108 • Lacan 113 5. Julia Kristeva: Rewriting the Subject 119 • Reading with mother? 133 6. 'Mirror, Mirror ... ': Luce Irigaray and Reflections of and on the Feminine 146 • Looking again: images of femininity, lrigaray and psychoanalysis 150 • Speech is never neuter/neutral 155 • Politics and French feminism 158 • Reading with Irigaray: three Gothic reflections 160 7. Cixous: Laughing at the Oppositions 168 • Reading with Cixous 177 Part III Differences 185 8. Differences of View and Viewing the Differences: Challenging Female Traditions 18? • Ain't I a woman? 187 • Ghosts, traces and sexual 'Others': lesbian feminist theories 199 • Queering the patch: Majorie Garber, Judith Butler and the slippage of identity 209 Part IV Readings 215 9. Reading the Boys' Own Stories: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr l-Iyde, The Picture ofD orian Gray and Heart ofD arkness 217 • Reading the stereotypes 219 • Case-notes: Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde 223 • As pretty as a picture? Wilde's Dorian Gray 227
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