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FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON LITERATURE:
FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY OF LITERATURE / FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY

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History of Feminist Literature and Literary Theory/ Feminist Perspectives on Literature and Literary Theory:

• Ancient (Classical) Feminist Thought / Feminist Perspectives on Ancient (Classical) Thought
• Medieval Feminist Thought / Feminist Perspectives on Medieval Thought
• Renaissance Feminist Thought / Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Thought
• Early Modern Feminist Thought / Feminist Perspectives on Early Modern Thought
• Nineteenth Century Feminist Thought / Feminist Perspectives on Nineteenth Century Thought
• Twentieth Century Approaches:
  • Analytic Feminist Philosophy
  • Continental Feminist Theory
  • Modernist and New Critical Feminist Literary Theory
  • Pragmatist Feminist Theory

Literature by Women and Feminist Literary Theory by Region:

• African and African Diasporic Feminist Theory
• Asia:
  • East Asian Feminist Theory
  • South Asian Feminist Theory
• Australasian Feminist Theory
• Canadian Feminist Theory
• Caribbean Feminist Theory
• Latin American Feminist Theory
• USA (American) Feminist Theory:
  • African American Feminist / Womanist Theory

Sub-Topics:

• Feminist Perspectives on the Audience
• Feminist Perspectives on the Author
• Feminist Perspectives on Literary Form and Genre
• Feminist Perspectives on Literary Historicism, Literary History, Tradition, Intertextuality and Canonicity
• Feminist Perspectives on Metaliterature
• Feminist Perspectives on Literary Representation (Realism)

ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2007:

• Femmes écrivains à la croisée des langues, 1700-2000, Université de Genève, 10-11 mai

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COURSES

• University of Warwick: Feminist Literary Theory

JOURNALS

• Clarion: a Woman's Critical Journal

• Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature

• Women's Literature

• Women's Writing

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Abel, Elizabeth, ed.  Writing and Sexual Difference.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1982.
  • Belsey, Catherine, and Jane Moore, eds.  The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Theory.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
  • Benstock, Shari, ed. Feminist Issues in Literary Scholarship.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987.
  • Case, Sue-Ellen, ed.  Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1990.
  • Clark, Veve, Madelon Sprengnether, and Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres, eds.  Revising the Word and the World: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.
  • Donovan, Josephine, ed.  Feminist Literary Criticism: Explorations in Theory.  Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1975.
  • Eagleton, Mary, ed. Feminist Literary Theory: a Reader.  2nd Edition.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
  • Greene, Gayle, and Coppelia Kahn, eds.   Changing Subjects: the Making of Feminist Literary Criticism.  London: Routledge, 1993.
  • Greene, Gayle, and Coppelia Kahn, eds.   Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism.  London: Routledge, 1990.

  • Kaufman, Linda, ed.  Gender and Theory: Dialogues on Feminist Criticism.  Oxford: Blackwell, .

  • Rose, Sue, ed.  Women Reading Women's Writing.  Brighton: Harvester, 1987.

  • Showalter, Elaine, ed.  The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature and Theory.  New York: Pantheon, 1985.
  • Warhol, Robyn, and Diane Herndl, eds. Feminisms: an Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1991.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Campbell, Sue.  Interpreting the Personal: Expression and the Formation of Feelings.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.
  • Cavarero, Adriana.  Stately Bodies: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Gender.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2002.

  • Felski, Rita.  Literature After Feminism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003.

  • Felski, Rita.  Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture.  New York: New York UP, 2000.

  • Felski, Rita.  Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1989.

  • Kamuf, Peggy.  "Replacing Feminist Criticism."  Diacritics 12 (1982): 42-47.  Rpt. in Conflicts in Feminism.  Ed. Marianne Hirsch and Evelyn Fox Keller.  London: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1990.  105-111.

  • Kaplan, Carla.  The Erotics of Talk: Women's Writing and Feminist Paradigms.  Oxford: OUP, 1996.

  • Threadgold, Terry.  Feminist Poetics: Poeisis, Performance, Histories.  London: Routledge, 1997.

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Benstock, Shari, Suzanne Ferriss, and Susanne Woods, eds.  A Handbook of Literary Feminisms.  Oxford: OUP, 2002.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Humm, Maggie.  Feminist Criticism: Women as Contemporary Critics.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1986.
  • Kaplan, Sydney Janet.  "Varieties of Feminist Criticism."  Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism.  Ed. Gayle Greene and Coppelia Kahn.  London: Routledge, 1990.  37-58.
  • Leitch, Vincent B.  "Feminist Criticism."  American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988.  307-331.
  • Messer-Davidow, Ellen.  "The Philosophical Bases of Feminist Literary Criticisms."  Gender and Theory: Dialogues on Feminist Criticism.  Oxford: Blackwell, .  63-106. 
  • Moi, Toril.  Sexual / Textual Politics.  London: Methuen, 1985.  2nd Ed.  London: Routledge, 2002.
  • Robbins, Ruth.  Literary Feminisms.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
  • Ruthven, K. K.  Feminist Literary Studies.  Cambridge: CUP, 1984.

On-Line:

• Felski, Rita: Feminist Criticism: More Than One Voice

• Messer-Davidow, Ellen: Feminist Theory and Criticism 1, 1963-1972 (Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism)

• Walzer, Judith: The Breakthrough: Feminism and Literary Criticism Dissent Magazine (2008)

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Feminist Literary Criticism

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