Who's Who and Where's Where
Constructing Feminist Literary Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3945901 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Eagleton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 53 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/fr.1996.15 |
| OpenAlex | W2003824069 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article is concerned with the construction of feminist literary studies in the last twenty years and points out how we have created a literary history which is both selective and schematic. It suggests that we should be more critically aware of what we are constructing, how we are constructing it and of the political consequences of those constructs. It stresses three critical modes which might help us to complicate our history: a greater awareness of institutional contexts, a concern with empirical detail, and an ongoing analysis of the cultural and political significance of feminist literary practice. This article briefly applies these critical modes in a survey of eleven introductions to feminist literary studies – introductions which feature frequently and influentially in the teaching situation. The final section focuses on the key problem of inclusion and exclusion. Considering arguments from Third World feminism and postmodernist feminism, the study concludes that white, academic feminists should confront the privilege of their own inclusion as a necessary spur to political action
Art · Critical theory · Epistemology · Feminism · Feminist philosophy · Human sexuality · Inclusion (mineral) · Literary criticism · Literature · Political science · Politics · Privilege (computing) · Social science · Sociology · Women's studies · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
The Madwoman in the Attic
Italian feminist thought
Woman, native, other
New French feminisms
Close to home
Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism
New Directions for Black Feminist Criticism
Toward a Black Feminist Criticism
The Hélène Cixous Reader
US Third World Feminism
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980)
Replacing Feminist Criticism
Gender Trouble
Feminist theory and the challenge to knowledges
What Has Never Been
Writing the Body
Dancing through the Minefield
Reading Kristeva
Women's Time
The Laugh of the Medusa
Patriarchal Attitudes
Introduction
Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism
Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2023 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |