SELECTED CRITICISM

Women in the Arts and Literature: A Different Voice

*Asterisk indicates a work touching on the course theme.

*Abel, Elizabeth, ed. Writing and Sexual Difference

Adelstein, Michael, and Jean Pival, eds. Women's Liberation

*Auerbach, Nina. *Woman and the Demon, *Communities of Women

Barr, Marlene and Richard Feldstein, eds. Discontented Discourses: Feminism/Textual Intervention/Psychoanalysis

*Barrett, Michele, ed. Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

*Batsleer, Janet, etal. Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class

*Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex

*Bennett, Paula. *My Life a Loaded Gun: Female Creativity and Feminist Poetics, Feminist Issues in Literary Scholarship

Bernikow, Louise. Among Women

Blake, Kathleen. Love and the Woman Question in Victorian Literature

Bradbrook, M. C. Women and Literature, 1779-1982

*Broude, Norma and Mary Garrard. Feminism and Art History

Brownmiller, Susan. Against our Will

*Brownstein, Rachel. Becoming a Heroine

*Carby, Hazel. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

*Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art and Society

Chance, Jane. Woman as Hero in Old English Literature

Chesler, Phyllis. Women and Madness

Chevigny, Bell Gale. The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings

Christian, Barbara. Black Feminist Criticism, Black Women Novelists

*Cixous, Helene and Catherine Clement. The Newly Born Woman

Craige, Betty Jean, ed. Literature, Language and Politics

Cunningham, Gail. The New Woman and the Victorian Novel

Damico, Helen and Alexandra Olsen. New Readings on Women in Old English Literature

DeLamotte, Eugenia. Perils of Night: Fem. St. of 19th C. Gothic

De Laurentis, Teresa. Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema, Feminist Studies, Critical Studies

*Delany, Sheila. Writing Woman: Essays on Women Writers and Women in Literature, Medieval to Modern

*Donovan, Josephine. *Feminist Literary Criticism, After the Fall: The Demeter-Persephone Myth in Cather, Charton and Glasgow,

Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions of American Feminism

*DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth Century Women Writers

*Dworkin, Andrea. Letters from the War Zone, Intercourse

Dyer, Joyce, ed. Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers

Eagleton, Mary, ed. Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader

Ellison, Jennifer. Rooms of Their Own

Erler, Mary and Maryanne Kowaleski, eds. Women and Power in the Middle Ages

*Faludi, Susan. Backlash: Undeclared War Ag. American Women

Fannin, Alice, ed. Woman: An Affirmation

Ferguson, Marianne, Women and Religion

Firestone, Shulamith. The Dialectic of Sex: the Case for Feminist Revolution

Forster, Margaret. Significant Sisters: the Grassroots of Active Feminism, 1839-1939

Foster, Shirley. Victorian Women's Fiction: Marriage, Freedom and the Individual.

Frank, Francine and F. Anshen. Language and the Sexes.

Freeman, Jo, ed. Women: A Feminist Perspective

Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique.

Fuller, Margaret. Women in the 19th Century

*Gage, Matilda Joslyn. Woman, Church and State: The Original Expose of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex

*Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. Madwoman in the Attic, No Man's Land: the Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, vols. 1

or 2

*Gilligan, Carol. In A Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Women and Economics.

Gornick, Vivian, ed. Women in a Sexist Society

*Greer, Germaine. The Female Eunuch, The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work

Hanscombe, Gillian and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940

*Hardwick, Elizabeth. Seduction and Betrayal

Harrison, Elizabeth Jane, Female Pastoral: Women Writers Re-Visioning the American South

*Heilbrun, Carolyn G. Toward a Recognition of Androgyny, *The Representation of Women in Fiction, *Writing a Woman's Life,

Reinventing Womanhood, Hamlet's Mother

*Heller, Nancy. Women Artists: An Illustrated History

Holbrook David. Images of Woman in Literature

*Homans, Margaret. Women Writers and Poetic Identity: D.Wordsworth, E. Bronte, and E. Dickinson, Bearing the Word

*Horney, Karen. Feminine Psychology.

*Huf, Linda. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: the Writer as Heroine in American Literature

Hufton, Olwen. The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe

Hymowitz, Carol and Michaele Weisman. A History of Women in America.

*Jacobus, Mary, ed. Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism, Women Writing and Writing About Women

Jameson, Anna. Celebrated Female Sovereigns

*Jones, Suzanne, ed. Writing the Woman Artist: Essays on Poetics, Politics, and Portraiture

*Jong, Erica. *Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir, The Devil at Large, A Study of Henry Miller; Witches, What

Do Women Want, *Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

*Juhasz, Suzanne, ed. Feminist Critics Read Emily Dickinson

*Koppleman Cornillon, Susan, ed. Images of Women in Fiction: Feminist Perspectives

Kraditor, Aileen S. Ideas of Woman's Suffrage Movement, 1890-1920

Kramarae, Cheris, ed. Women and Men Speaking, The Voices and Words of Women and Men, A Feminist Dictionary

*Kristeva, Julia. Desire in Language, Revolution in Poetic Language

Kroker, Marilouise, etal. Feminism Now: Theory and Practice

*Kubitschek, Missy Dehn, Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History

*Marcus, Jane, ed. Virginia Woolf: A Feminist Slant, New Feminist Essays on Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf and the Language of

Patriarchy

Marks, Elaine and Isabelle de Courtevron, eds. New French Feminisms: An Anthology

*Martin, Wendy. An American Triptych: Bradstreet, Dickinson, and Rich, The American Sisterhood: Writings of the Feminist Movement

from Colonial Times to the Present

*Martin, Priscilla. Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives and Amazons

Mead, Margaret. Male and Female

Meese, Elizabeth. Extensions: Refiguring Feminist Criticism

McColley, Diane. Milton's Eve

McCracken, Elizabeth. The Feminine in Fiction

Mill, John Stuart and Harriet Taylor. The Subjection of Women

Miller, Casey and Kate Swift. The Handbook of Non-Sexist Writing

*Miller, Nancy. The Heroine as Text

Millett, Kate. Sexual Politics

Mitchell, Juliet. Psychoanalysis and Feminism

*Moers, Ellen. Literary Women

Moffat, Mary Jane and Charlotte Painter, eds. Revelations: Diaries of Women

*Moi, Toril. Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory

Morgan, Robin, ed. Sisterhood Is Global

Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination.

Nestor, Pauline. Charlotte Bronte.

Nies, Judith. Seven Women: Portraits from American Radical Tradition

*Nochlin, Linda. Women, Art, and Power--and Other Essays

Noglen, Helen. Charlotte Bronte: The Self Conceived

Oakley, Ann. The Sociology of Housework

Olsen, Tillie. Silences

*Ostriker, Alicia. Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America

Pearson, Carol. The Female Hero in American and British Literature

*Petersen, Karen and J. Wilson. Women Artists: Recognition and Reappraisal from the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century

*Poovey, Mary. The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer

*Pratt, Annis. Archetypal Patterns in Women's Fiction

*Prentis, Barbara. The Bronte Sisters and George Eliot

Prins, Yopie. Victorian Sappho

*Rich, Adrienne. Of Woman Born, On LIes, Secrets, and Silences & Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose

Rosenblum, Dolores. Christina Rossetti: The Poetry of Endurance

Rowbothan, Sheila. Hidden from History, Woman's Consciousness, Man's World

, and Jean McCrindle. Dutiful Daughters

*Ruddick, Sara and Pamela Daniels, eds. Working It Out: 23 Women Writers, Artists, Scientists and Scholars Talk About Their Lives and

Work

Russ, Joanna. How to Surpress Women's Writing

Ruthven, K. K. Feninist Literary Studies: An Introduction

Sanders, Eve Rachele. Gender and Literacy on the Stage in Early Modern England

Sanford, Linda and Mary Donovan. Women and Self-Esteem

Schofield, Mary Anne and Cecilia Macheski, eds. Fetter'd or Free? British Women Novelists, 1670-1815

Scott, Hilda. Working Your Way to the Bottom: The Feminization of Poverty

*Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing, The Female

Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980, Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature and Theory.

Steinem, Gloria. The Revolution Within

*Shurbutt, Sylvia Bailey, "Writing Lives and Telling Tales: Visions and Revisions" in Untying the Tongue: Gender, Power, and the Word,

Eds. Linda Longmire and Lisa Merrill

Slatkin, Wendy, Women Artists in History

Smith, Philip. Language, the Sexes and Society

Sochen, June. Herstory: A Woman's View of American History

*Spacks, Patricia. The Female Imagination

Spencer, Jane. The Rise of the Woman Novelist: from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen

*Spender, Dale, ed. Feminist Theorists, Mothers of the Novel, The Writing or the Sex, or Why you Don't Have to Read Women's Writing to Know It's No Good, Men's Studied Modified, Man Made Language, Women of Ideas--and What Men Have Done to Them, For the Record: The Making and Meaning of Feminist Knowledge, Scribling Sisters

*Sternburg, Janet, ed. The Writer on Her Work: Contemporary Women Writers Reflect on their Art and their Situation

*Tannen, Deborah. You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

*Tate, Claudia. Black Women Writers at Work

*Taylor, Anne R. Male Novelists and Their Female Voices

Thorne, Barrie and Nancy Henley, eds. Language and Sex: Difference and Dominance

*Toth, Emily. Kate Chopin

*Todd, Janet, ed. Brit. Women Writers: Critical Reference Guide, Women Writers Talking

*Tufts, Eleanor. Our Hidden Heritage: Five Centuries of Women Artists

Vicinus, Martha, ed. Suffer and Be Still

Wagner, Geoffrey. Five for Freedom: A Study of Feminism in Fiction

*Wagner-Martin, Linda. Sylvia Plath

*Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

*Walker, Barbara. The Crone: Women of Age, Wisdom and Power

*Wandor, Michelene, ed. On Gender and Writing

Washington, Mary Helen. Invented Lives: Narrataives of Black Women

Weltman, Sharon. Ruskin's Mythic Queen: Gender and Subversion in Victorian Culture

Williamson, Marilyn L. Raising their Voices: British Women Writers, 1650-1750

Wilson, Katherine, ed. Medieval Women Writers

Whitmont, Edward. The Return of the Goddess

Wollstonecraft, Mary. Vindication of the Rights of Woman

*Woolf, Virginia. *Room of One's Own, Three Guineas, *Common Reader, *The Second Common Reader, Women and Writing

*Yalom, Marilyn. Maternity, Mortality and the Literature of Madness

*Yaeger, Pat. Refiguring the Father: Feminist Readings of the Patriarchy

Review of Criticism: Paper #1

Choose one of the works above and write a 2- to 3-page critical review. Focus in your paper on the following points:

1) a survey of the central ideas in the work

2) your critical response (positive and negative) to those ideas.

Read creatively, marking passages of interest, controversy, or particularly enlightening regarding the course theme. Your essay should be computer-drafted pages. Follow MLA style and format for citing pages. Your grade will be determined by your understanding of the work reviewed, by the quality of your response to those ideas, and by the quality of your writing. Edit with care.