Table of Contents

Preface Introduction The Inklings as Male Culture Women as Mythic Icons: Williams and Tolkien Women as Presence and Absence: The Lewis Brothers Against Insubordination: Women in Inklings Fiction Mere Feminism: Gender, Reading, and the Inklings Selected Bibliography Index

Promotional Information

Examines the attitude of three of the Inklings-Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams-toward women, in their lives and writings.

About the Author

CANDICE FREDRICK is Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Redlands. She is the coauthor of Women, Ethics, and the Workplace (Praeger, 1997). SAM MCBRIDE is Senior Professor at DeVry Institute of Technology in Pomona, California. His research and publications emphasize interdisciplinary approaches to the humanities in the twentieth century.

Reviews

.,."the book is well-researched and the Notes and Selected Bibliography are extensive and impressive."-Science Fiction Studies

.,."the only full treatment of the topic. Highly recommended for libraries supporting studies of the Inklings; also useful in extensive feminist studies collections and for public libraries looking for something lively on Tolkien."-Choice

?...the book is well-researched and the Notes and Selected Bibliography are extensive and impressive.?-Science Fiction Studies

?...the only full treatment of the topic. Highly recommended for libraries supporting studies of the Inklings; also useful in extensive feminist studies collections and for public libraries looking for something lively on Tolkien.?-Choice

?This literary study is provacative in the best sense: it's deeply researched, well-written, thinks its arguments all the way through, and unashamedly tackles its difficult subject: the attitudes of the three principal Inklings towards women, in their lives and in both deliberate and casual references in their writings....This is an honest and insightful book that should cause all Inklings readers to think hard about the authors, and criticism has no higher value.?-Mythprint

..."the book is well-researched and the Notes and Selected Bibliography are extensive and impressive."-Science Fiction Studies

..."the only full treatment of the topic. Highly recommended for libraries supporting studies of the Inklings; also useful in extensive feminist studies collections and for public libraries looking for something lively on Tolkien."-Choice

"This literary study is provacative in the best sense: it's deeply researched, well-written, thinks its arguments all the way through, and unashamedly tackles its difficult subject: the attitudes of the three principal Inklings towards women, in their lives and in both deliberate and casual references in their writings....This is an honest and insightful book that should cause all Inklings readers to think hard about the authors, and criticism has no higher value."-Mythprint