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owner: APIRG
tags: Feminist literary criticism ,Feminism and literature ,Minority women in literature ,Literature ,Women authors ,History and criticism ,black feminism ,racist ,miscegenation ,Brazil ,antiracism ,coarticulation ,codes of silence ,chiasmus ,colonialist ,Sexism ,Zora Neale Hurston ,masculinist ,misogyny ,Women and Gender Studies
author: Susan Lurie
LCC: PN98

Description

Author Susan Lurie argues that during the 1980s much of the well-intentioned work of feminist theory still left patriarchal power unquestioned. Lurie cites three literary feminists--Ellen Glasgow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Elizabeth Bishop--tracing each author's strategies for revealing and challenging the ways that patriarchal gender ideology profits from contested female subjectivity.

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