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FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON THE READER
(THE AUDIENCE / THE CRITIC / THE VIEWER / THE SPECTATOR
PRAGMATIC CRITICISM; READER-RESPONSE THEORY)

CONFERENCES

• The Resisting Reader, Then and Now: a Symposium in Honour of Judith Fetterley, Department of English, University at Albany, November 6, 2004

PERSONS

• Judith Fetterley (1938 - )
• Annette Kolodny (1941 - )
• Elaine Showalter (1941 - )
• Janice Radway (1949 - )

SOURCES: PRIMARY

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• Anthologies:

  • Flynn, Elizabeth A., and Patricinio Schweickart, eds.  Gender and Reading: Essays on Reading, Texts and Contexts.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1986.

  • Mills, Sara, ed.  Gendering the Reader.  Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994.

  • Pribram, E. Deidre, ed.  Female Spectators.  London: Verso, 1988.

• Individual Works:

  • Abel, Elizabeth.  "Black Writing, White Reading: Race and the Politics of Feminist Interpretation."  Critical Inquiry 19 (1993): 470-498.

  • Crawford, Mary, and Roger Chaffin.  "The Reader's Construction of Meaning: Cognitive Research on Gender and Comprehension."  Gender and Reading: Essays on Reading, Texts and Contexts.  Ed. Elizabeth A. Flynn and Patricinio Schweickart.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1986.  3-30.

  • Culler, Jonathan.  "Reading as a Woman."  On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983. 

  • Devereaux, Mary.  “Oppressive Texts, Resisting Readers, and the Gendered Spectator.”  Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics.  Ed. Peggy Zeglin Brand and Carolyn Korsmeyer.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1995.  121-41.

  • Felman, Shoshana.  What Does a Woman Want?  Reading and Sexual Difference.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993.

  • Fetterley, Judith.  The Resisting Reader: a Feminist Approach to American Fiction.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978.

  • Flint, Kate.  The Woman Reader, 1837-1914.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.

  • Flynn.  Elizabeth A.  "Gender and Reading."  Gender and Reading: Essays on Reading, Texts and Contexts.  Ed. Elizabeth A. Flynn and Patricinio Schweickart.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1986.  267-288.

  • Jacobus, Mary.  Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism.  London: Methuen, 1986.

  • Kennard, Jean E.  "Ourself behind Ourself: a Theory for Lesbian Readers."  Gender and Reading: Essays on Reading, Texts and Contexts.  Ed. Elizabeth A. Flynn, and Patricinio Schweickart.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1986.  63-79.

  • Kolodny, Annette.  "A Map for Rereading, Or, Gender and the Interpretation of Literary Texts."  New Literary History 11 (1980): 451-467.

  • Peterson, Carla L.  The Determined Reader: Gender and Culture in the Novel from Napoleon to Victoria.  New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1986.

  • Radway, Janice.  Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature.  Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1984.'

  • Scholes, Robert.  "Reading Like a Man."  Men in Feminism.  Ed. Alice Jardine and Paul Smith.  New York: Methuen, 1987.  204-218.

  • Segal, Naomi.  The Unintended Reader: Feminism and Manon Lescaut.  Cambridge: CUP, 1986.

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Caughie, Pamela L.  "Women Reading / Reading Women: a Review of Some Recent Books on Gender and Reading."  Papers on Language and Literature 24 (1988): 317-335.

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