Table of Contents

Introduction Ellen Rooney; Part I. Problematics Emerge: 1. On canons: anxious history and the rise of black feminist literary studies Ann duCille; 2. Pleasure, resistance, and a feminist aesthetics of reading Geraldine Heng; 3. The literary politics of feminist theory Ellen Rooney; Part II. In Feminism's Wake: Genre, Period, Form: 4. What feminism did to novel studies Nancy Armstrong; 5. Autobiography and the feminist subject Linda Anderson; 6. Modernisms and feminisms Katherine Mullin; 7. French feminisms' écriture féminine Kari Weil; 8. Feminism and popular culture Nickianne Moody; Part III. Feminist Theories in Play: 9. Poststructuralism: theory as critical self-consciousness Rey Chow; 10. On common ground: feminist theory and critical race studies Rashmi Varma; 11. Feminists theorize colonial/postcolonial Rosemary Marangoly George; 12. Feminist psychoanalytic literary criticism Elizabeth Weed; 13. Queer politics, queer theory, and the future of identity: spiralling out of culture Berthold Schoene.

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A lively overview of the current state and development of the field, including suggestions for further reading.

About the Author

Ellen Rooney is Professor of English and Gender Studies at Brown University, Rhode Island.