Customer Review: There are no academics today living that can boast the expertise, eloquence, elegance and ethical engagement of a Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Having read the sparse comments and reviews on her masterpiece, Critique of Postcolonial Reason, I shall take it upon myself to redress some startling... more info
Customer Review: Wittig, Monique. "The Straight Mind", Beacon, 1992. A Classic Amos Lassen Monique Wittig is one of my heroines. When I was a graduate student studying feminist literary criticism, her book "The Straight Mind" was indispensable to me. She is a mainstay in the French Feminist movement... more info
Customer Review: This "book" is quite possibly the most nonsensical, self-indulgent collection of phrases I've ever encountered. If I weren't assigned this in class, and perhaps despite that fact, I would have thought it was a publisher's joke. And not the funny kind, the "see what kind of drivel we can put out when... more info
Customer Review: According to Ong, who wrote this book in 1981 (pre-WWW), writing is a form of technology that, through the act itself, changes the brain. By change, I mean that it compels one to think of the world in a whole different way. He doesn't so much as say that oral culture is inferior to literal culture,... more info
Customer Review: This anthology is a must for anyone studying feminist criticism. It covers a broad range of topics and as well is relatively new (1997). Read it and learn about this new and exciting field, or read it simply to enrich your current knowledge of criticism. Either way, this one is a keeper!
Customer Review: This is a wonderful collection of essays for anyone looking for an introduction to feminist theory, or simply for new ways to perceive and analyze the body. The bitesize samples of Judith Butler, Catharine MacKinnon, Audre Lorde, and bell hooks challenge the reader to confront contemporary issues... more info
Customer Review: This book was a revelation to me.
It was also a bit more than I could chew, and though I did finish the book, I wish now that I had held on to it to refer to later. I agree with an earlier comment that the bio of Margaret Fuller is a great perk to this volume.
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Customer Review: In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics, Gayatri Spivak is interested in finding new ways to apply Marxism and Feminism to literary texts. She argues that the traditional ways of reading texts and the traditional canon of knowledge leave out many important voices from Other Worlds. Her essays... more info
Customer Review: Teresa de Lauretis is possibly _the_ most quoted gender theorist after Foucault. Arguments in this book have been taken up by the likes of Judith Butler, Michael Warner, and Judith Halberstam.
Customer Review: Author Marina Warner has dug deep into the history and meaning behind the celebrated fairy tales I loved as a child. Well-written and alive with insight of the heroine's journey in these precious stories, I will continue to use this book to enhance and bring forth a deeper, complex character for the... more info
