Feminist literary theory: a reader

First published in 1986 with a second edition in 1996, Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader constitutes one of the classic texts of second-into-third-wave feminist literary studies. Both a history and a survey of the varied positions within feminist literary theory, the Reader includes extracts from all the major critics, critical approaches, and theoretical positions in contemporary feminist literary studies.

Part I: Finding a female tradition -- Extract from: A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf -- Extract from: A literature of their own: British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing / Elaine Showalter -- Extract from: 'Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence' / Adrienne Rich -- Extract from: Feminist practice and poststructuralist theory / Chris Weedon -- Extract from: 'The rise of black feminist literary studies' / Anne Ducille -- Extract from: 'Race and gender in the shaping of the American literary canon: a case study from the twenties' / Paul Lauter -- Extract from: 'Telling feminist stories' / Clare Hemmings -- Extract from: Doing time: feminist theory and postmodernist culture / Rita Felski -- Extract from: 'Happy families? Feminist reproduction and matrilineal thought' / Linda R. Williams -- Extract from: Literary relations: kinship and the canon / Jane Spencer -- Extract from: 'Parables and politics: feminist criticism in 1986' / Nancy K. Miller -- Extract from: 'What women's eyes see' / Viviane Forrester -- Extract from: 'Women and madness: the critical phallacy' / Shoshana Felman -- Extract from: Writing women's literary history / Margaret J.M. Ezell -- Extract fr…