Working with Feminist Criticism

Acknowledgments vi

Introduction  1

Speech and Silence 16

Defining a Feminist Text 32

Creating a Matrilineage 37

The Woman Author: Lost and Found 49

The Death of a Woman Author? 65

Gender and Genre 77

Feminism and Genre Fiction 91

Feminist Publishing 105

Feminist Reading 119

Feminist Criticisms 135

Patriarchal Binary Thought 146

Gender Play 158

Feminine Writing and Reading 172

Finding the Subject 189

The Politics of Location 208

Conclusion 219

Works Cited 221

Index 234