Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism Book

	About Feminism
	Acknowledgments
	Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy	7
	Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship	21
	A Mindless Man-driven Theory Machine: Intellectuality, Sexuality, and the Institution of Criticism	33
	The Highs and Lows of Black Feminist Criticism	51
	Confinements: The Domestic in the Discourses of Upper-Middle-Class Pregnancy	57
	What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Literary Criticism	76
	"Anomalousness" and "Aesthetics" from How to Supress Women's Writing	97
	Treason Our Text: Feminist Challenges to the Literary Canon	115
	Caste, Class, and Canon	129
	Reflections on Black Women Writers: Revising the Literary Canon	151
	Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism	171
	Archimedes and the Paradox of a Feminist Criticism	191
	A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in Afro-American and Feminist Literary Theory	213
	Recycling: Race, Gender, and the Practice of Theory	234
	The 'Wild Zone' Thesis as Gloss in Chicana Literary Study	248
	Storming the Toolshed	263
	The Madwoman and Her Languages: Why I Don't Do Feminist Literary Theory	279
	Feminist Politics: What's Home Got to Do with It?	293
	Black Feminist Theory and the Representation of the 'Other'	311
	Upping the Anti (sic) in Feminist Theory	326
	The Laugh of the Medusa	347
	"This Sex Which Is Not One" from This Sex Which Is Not One	363
	Writing the Body: Toward an Understanding of l'Ecriture feminine	370
	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book	384
	"Women of Color' Writers and Feminist Theory"	406
	"Another 'Cause' - Castration" from Speculum of the Other Woman	430
	Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema	438
	'The Situation of the Looker-On': Gender, Narration, and Gaze in Wuthering Heights	449
	When Virginia Looked at Vita, What Did She See; or, Lesbian: Feminist: Woman - What's the Differ(e/a)nce?	467
	"The Father's Seduction" from The Daughter's Seduction	489
	"Introduction" and "Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles" from Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosexual Desire	507
	Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Counterplot of Lesbian Fiction	532
	Male Heroes and Female Sex Objects: Sexism in Spike Lee's Malcolm X	555
	Introduction: On the Politics of Literature	564
	"The Readers and Their Romances" from Reading the Romance	574
	Reading Ourselves: Toward a Feminist Theory of Reading	609
	Feminism, New Historicism, and the Reader	635
	Constructing the Subject: Deconstructing the Text	657
	Toward a Feminist Narratology	674
	Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion	694
	"Gender in Bakhtin's Carnival" from Feminist Dialogics	708
	When a 'Long' Poem Is a 'Big' Poem: Self-Authorizing Strategies in Women's Twentieth-Century 'Long Poems'	721
	"Kochinnenako in Academe: Three Approaches to Interpreting a Keres Indian Tale" from The Sacred Hoop	746
	La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness	765
	I'm Here: An Asian American Woman's Response	776
	The Truth That Never Hurts: Black Lesbians in Fiction in the 1980s	784
	Feminist and Ethnic Theories in Asian American Literature	807
	Black Writing, White Reading: Race and the Politics of Feminist Interpretation	827
	Women's Time	860
	"Power and the Ideology of Woman's Sphere" from Women, Power, and Subversion: Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860	880
	Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism	896
	Some Call It Fiction: On the Politics of Domesticity	913
	The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill	931
	Pandora's Box: Subjectivity, Class and Sexuality in Socialist Feminist Criticism	956
	Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises	976
	I Shop Therefore I Am: Is There a Place for Afro-American Culture in Commodity Culture?	992
	Discourses of Gender, Ethnicity and Class in Chicano Literature	1009
	"Reading Woman (Reading)" from Reading Woman	1029
	Masculinity as Excess in Vietnam Films: The Father/Son Dynamic of American Culture	1046
	Creation by the Father's Fiat: Paternal Narrative, Sexual Anxiety, and the Deauthorizing Designs of Absalom, Absalom!	1068
	Pedagogy and Sexuality	1087
	Me and My Shadow	1103
	"Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior: Filiality and Woman's Autobiographical Storytelling" from A Poetics of Women's Autobiography	1117
	Authorizing the Autobiographical	1138
	The Long Goodbye: Against Personal Testimony, or an Infant Grifter Grows Up	1155
	About the Authors	1173
	Alternative Arrangements for Feminisms	1187
	Author/Title Index