Literature and Feminism: An Introduction

Introduction: Why 'literature and feminism'?.

Part I: Literature?.

1. Re-vision: Reading as a Woman.

2. Challenging the Canon and the Literary Establishment.

3. Writing by Women.

Part II:.

4. The Construction of Gender: Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan.

5. Writing as a Woman: Helen Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Ecriture Feminine.

6. Identities in Process: Poststructuralism, Julia Kristeva and Intertextuality.

7. A Return to Women in History: Lesbian, Black and Class.

Criticism.

Notes.

Glossary.

Bibliography.

Index