This introduction to feminist literary criticism in its international contexts discusses a broad range of complex critical writings and then identifies and explains the main developments and debates within each approach. Each chapter has an easy-to-use format, comprising an introductory overview, an explanation of key themes and techniques, a detailed account of the work of specific critics, and a summary which includes critiques of the approach. Each chapter is accompanied by a guide to the primary texts and further reading.

A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism

HUMM, MAGGIE

Harvester/Wheatsheaf

A companion volume to the book A Reader's Guide to Feminist Criticism (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994), This book offers practical readings of literary and cultural texts, and showing how literary theory and feminist criticism an be applied to the main developments and debates within each approach.Comprehensive and systematic coverage of the main schools of thought. International coverage; including Third World feminist criticism and Black Feminism. Students of Literature, Literary studies, Women and Literature, Women's Studies.

Practicing Feminist Criticism: An Introduction

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

PRENTICE/HALL

Feminism and Film

Feminist theory has been at the forefront of critical analysis for more than two decades. With dazzling insight, Maggie Humm highlights and explains feminist issues and offers a fascinating array of original film analyses. Feminism and Film is the first book to apply such a broad range of theory to contemporary film. Humm begins with an in-depth historical survey of contemporary feminist theory, visual aesthetics and film theory, with a particular focus on the work of Laura Mulvey, Annette Kuhn, E. Ann Kaplan and bell hooks. Subsequent chapters examine the most pressing questions posed by feminism about reproduction, pornography and the gaze, autobiography and literary theory, postmodernism, Black feminism and "the personal is political" in relation to a variety of mainstream and independent films, including Klute, Dead Ringers, A Question of Silence, Orlando and Daughters of the Dust.

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Indiana University Press

This is the first study to apply a broad range of theory to contemporary film. With dazzling insight and critical aplomb Maggie Humm highlights and explains feminist issues and offers a fascinating array of original film analyses. She begins with an in-depth historical survey of contemporary feminist theory, visual aesthetics and film theory, with a particular focus on the work of Laura Mulvey, Annette Kuhn, E. Ann Kaplan and bell hooks. Subsequent chapters examine the issues of reproduction, pornography and the gaze, autobiography and literary theory, postmodernism, Black feminism and 'the personal is political' in relation to a variety of mainstream and independent films, including Klute, Dead Ringers, A Question of Silence, Orlando and Daughters of the Dust.

Indiana Univ. Pr

The Bloomsbury Photographs

Arts & Photography

Yale University Press

Feminist Criticism: Women As Contemporary Critics

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Physical description; xi,218p ; 23cm. Subject; Feminist literary criticism History.

Feminist Criticism

Brighton: Harvester 1986

The dictionary of feminist theory

This reference provides a comprehensive guide to the terminology and history of feminist theory across the different fields of psychology, sociology, psychoanalysis and the arts.

Feminisms: A Reader (Gender and Culture)

This major textbook for women's studies provides an excellent and wide-ranging introduction to feminist ideas and perspectives on issues such as the family, sexuality, work, education, patriarchy, race, language, culture and representation. It brings together over seventy key excerpts.

Feminisms (Reader)

Routledge

This introduction to feminist literary criticism in its international contexts discusses a broad range of complex critical writings and then identifies and explains the main developments and debates within each approach. Each chapter has an easy-to-use format, comprising an introductory overview, an explanation of key themes and techniques, a detailed account of the work of specific critics, and a summary which includes critiques of the approach. Each chapter is accompanied by a guide to the primary texts and further reading.

Readers Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism

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A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism

Practicing Feminist Criticism: An Introduction

Feminism and Film

Feminism and Film

The Bloomsbury Photographs

Feminist Criticism: Women As Contemporary Critics

Feminist Criticism

The dictionary of feminist theory

Feminisms (Reader)

Readers Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism