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Author:

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher.

Title:

Feminist engagements : forays into American literature and culture / Shelley Fisher Fishkin.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

viii, 277 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--United States--History.
Feminism and literature--United States--History.
Women--United States--Intellectual life.
Feminism in literature.
Women, White, in literature.
Minority women in literature.
Authorship--Sex differences.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-265) and index.

Contents:

Changing the story. The borderlands of a culture ; Making a change ; Reading writing and arithmetic ; Changing the story ; Essentialism and its discontents -- Men reading and writing women/women reading and writing men. Dreiser and the discourse of gender ; Mark Twain and women ; An interview with Maxine Hong Kingston ; The Bondwoman's Escape -- Humor and chutzpah. Feminist humor and Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Theresa Malkiel's Diary of a shirtwaist striker -- Erica Jong.

ISBN:

0230615945 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780230615946 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0312238584 (paper-over-boards (lithocase) : alk. paper)
9780312238582 (paper-over-boards (lithocase) : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)244417140

LCCN:

2008045170

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)