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Index
Note: book and article titles are in italics; * indicates a character treated as a subject.
Abelard, 14–15
abjection, 201
Aboriginal women, 296
abortion, 190
Abraham, Julie, 177
academy, the see universities
Ackland, Valentine, 176
adult education, 109, 124–5
Aeneid translations, 17
African American Studies, 161–3
ageing, 148
Agrippa, Cornelius, 39
AIDS crisis, 314
Ain’t I a Woman?, 128
Alcott, Louisa May, 8
Alexander, M. Jacqui, 290, 297
Alexander, Sally, 124–5
Algeria, 276
Algren, Nelson, 94
All the Women Are White …, 128
Allen, Jeffner, 173–4
Allison, Dorothy, 175
Althusser, Louis, 112
analism see rectal turn
Anderson, Linda, 103
androgyny, 75, 107
Angel in the House, The, 79
Angelou, Maya, 155
Anger, Jane, 27–8, 36
Anna O., 235, 236, 240
Another Mother Tongue, 171
anti-fascism, 70 see also fascism
Anti-Jacobin Review, 55
anti-revolutionary propaganda, 55
Anzaldúa, Gloria, 163, 174, 294, 295
Apparitional Lesbian, The, 180
appearance, 148
Archive of Feelings, An, 314–15
Are Girls Necessary?, 177
Ariel, 123
Arraignment of … Women, The, 28, 30
assemblage, 332
Astell, Mary, 40
Astrophil and Stella, 35
Austen, Jane, 7–8, 120
Austin, J. L., 142
author, significance of title, 32
autobiographical turn, 38
autobiography, 22
Awkward, Michael, 160, 161
Bachelard, Gaston, 88
Baker, Houston, 161, 162
Balsamo, Anne, 325
Bannon, Ann, 176
Bardot, Brigitte, 87, 95–6, 97
Barnes, Djuna, 109
Barrett, Michèle, 73, 114
Barthes, Roland, 91, 145, 192, 193, 198, 312
Basch, Michael Franz, 147
Bataille, Georges, 201
Bauer, Ida see Dora
Beacon Press, 163
Beale, Frances, 154
beauty, 48, 49, 52, 53, 54
Beauvoir, Simone de, 9–10, 85–98, 239, 340
influence, 9, 85, 307
Moi on, 86
Schwartzer’s interviews, 114
Bechdel, Alison, 179
Becon, Thomas, 29
Behn, Aphra, 38–9
Bell Jar, The, 123
Belsey, Catherine, 66
Bennett, Paula, 176–7
Bequest and Betrayal, 148
Bersani, Leo, 201
Between Men, 311
Between Women, 138–9
Bhabha, Homi, 286, 287–8
Bible, The, 14, 28
Black, White and in Color, 158–9
Black Arts Movement, 154, 161, 162
Black-Eyed Susans, 163
black feminist criticism, 154–68
Black Feminist Criticism, 158
Black Feminist Statement, 304
Black Feminist Thought, 162–3
Black Power Movement, 154, 161
Black Woman, The, 155
black women, 77
Black Women in White America, 163
Black Women Novelists, 157–8
black women writers, 127–9
Blade Runner, 330
Bloomsbury circle, 67
Bluest Eye, The, 155
Bly, Robert, 199
Bodies That Matter, 228, 309
body, the
Butler, 229
in cyberspace, 228, 322
French feminist criticism, 263–81
male, 200–1
poststructuralism, 228
technologies of, 322–35
Woolf, 76–7
Bondwoman’s Narrative, The, 163
book festivals, 109
book groups, 109
Book of Margery Kempe, 7, 22–4
Book of the City of Ladies, 22, 24
book shops, 109
Boone, Joseph A., 201–2
Booth, Alison, 322–3
Borderlands/La Frontera, 294, 304
Bordo, Susan, 325
bourgeoisie, 94
Bradstreet, Anne, 32, 33
Braidotti, Rosi, 228, 322
Breton, André, 91, 92, 93
Breuer, Josef, 235
Bridget of Sweden, Saint, 23
Brimstone, Lyndie, 175
Brontë, Anne, 120
Brontë, Charlotte, 7, 111, 120
Millett on, 97, 106, 121
Brontë, Emily, 120
Buddhism, 276
Burke, Edmund, 8, 47–50, 56
But Enough about Me, 144–5, 147
But Some of Us Are Brave, 304
Butler, Judith, 86, 94–5, 228–30, 248, 307–9, 314
abjection, treatment of, 201
Beauvoir’s influence, 9, 307
Bodies That Matter, 228, 309
gender performativity, 174, 228–9, 302, 308, 309
Gender Trouble, 3, 142–3, 307–9
on mourning, 151
on the other, 204
Žižek, debates with, 223–4
Byatt, A. S., 123
Cadden, Michael, 201–2
Cade, Toni, 155
Cadigan, Pat, 331
Caine, Barbara, 58
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament British, 102
Can the Subaltern Speak?, 290–1
Canterbury Tales see Clerk’s Tale; Pardoner; Wife of Bath
Capellanus, Andreas, 15
capitalism, 327–8
Carby, Hazel, 158
Carr, Helen, 102–3
Carruthers, Mary, 23
Carter, Angela, 123
cartoons, lesbian, 179
Cary, Elizabeth, 39–40
Cassandra, 108–9
Castle, Terry, 175, 180
Cather, Willa, 243
Cause, The, 67
Cavendish, Margaret, 31, 35, 36–7, 38, 39
Caws, Mary Ann, 141
Césaire, Aimé, 285
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 7, 12, 14, 15–18
Woolf on, 24
Cheng, Anne, 159
child analysis, 238
Children of Violence, 123
China, 276
Chloe Plus Olivia, 180
Chodorow, Nancy, 242–3
Christian, Barbara, 145, 157–8, 161, 162
Chudleigh, Mary, 40
Civil Rights Movement [US], 102, 121, 154
Cixous, Hélène, 114, 116–17, 130, 245, 264, 265–7
binary opposites, 90
on body, 263, 264
Derrida on, 272
écriture féminine, 76, 130, 265
Laugh of the Medusa, 3, 114, 116, 117, 138
on maternity, 245–6
class, 80, 81, 149, 150, 171
Claudel, Paul, 91–2, 93
Clerk’s Tale, 16
CND, British, 102
Cobbe, Frances Power, 7
Colebrook, Claire, 211
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 75
collaborative writing, 275–6
Collins, An, 32
Collins, Patricia Hill, 162–3
colonialism, 284 see also postcolonialism
Coloniser and the Colonised, The, 285
Color Purple, The, 129
Combahee River Collective, 155–6, 304
Come As You Are, 177
Coming Out of Feminism?, 302–3
Commonwealth literature, 284–5
Companion to Postcolonial Studies, 285
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence, 3, 170, 174, 243, 305–6
conferences, 109, 133
consciousness-raising novels, 115
Copjec, Joan, 224–5
Cornell, Drucilla, 223
Count Zero, 330
Coup de Des, Un, 220
couples, heterosexual, 92–4
Courtivron, Isabelle de, 130
courtly love tradition, 223
Cox, Stephen, 48
Crafts, Hannah, 163
creation myths, 89
creative turn, 115–17
Creet, Julia, 169
Crenshaw, Kimberlé, 154
*Criseyde, 17
Critically Queer, 314
Critique of Postcolonial Reason, A, 292
Cross-Purposes, 301
Cruikshank, Margaret, 178
Culler, Jonathan, 200, 203
culture, 216
cunning, 53
Currier, Dianne, 332
Cvetkovich, Ann, 314–15
cyberfeminism, 326–7
cybernetics, 327
cyberpunk, 330
cyborgs, 322–3, 324, 325–6
Cyborg Manifesto, A, 324
Cyborgs and Women, 324
Daiches, David, 120
Daly, Mary, 290
Davies, Carole Boyce, 140–1, 160
de Beauvoir, Simone see Beauvoir, Simone de
de Courtivron, Isabelle, 130
de Lanerolle, Ros, 129
de Man, Paul, 146
de Meun, Jean, 18
de Montherlant, Henry, 91, 92
de Pizan, Christine, 15, 19–22
death, 148, 149, 150
deconstruction, 131, 218–19, 247–8, 286
lesbians’ skill in, 172
Weedon definition, 298
Deleuze, Gilles, 225, 230–1
Delighting the Heart, 133
Delphy, Christine, 114
Denny, Lord Edward, 30–1
Derrida, Jacques
Anderson on, 142
Carr on, 122
on Cixous, 272
Colebrook on, 216–18, 219–21
on linguistic turn, 204
Sprengnether on, 247–8, 251–2
Weedon on, 286
see also deconstruction
desire, problem of, 315–16
detective fiction, 330–1
Deutsch, Helene, 238
Devi, Mahasweta, 291
devotion, religious, 33
Dickinson, Emily, 176, 243
*Dido, 17
differences, 301
digital divide, 327–8
Dinshaw, Carolyn, 2, 6–7
discourse analysis, 180
Discourse on Colonialism, 285
Discourse on the Love of Our Country, 54–5
Doan, Laura, 169
dolls, 55
Don Juan, 227
Donne, John, 28
Donoghue, Denis, 197, 198
Donoghue, Emma, 180
Dora, 239, 240–1
double binds, 33, 89
double jeopardy, 154
Douglas, Gavin, 17
Drabble, Margaret, 123
Dubey, Madhu, 160
Duffy, Maureen, 175
Duggan, Lisa, 303
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau, 138, 177
Duras, Marguerite, 114
Dykes To Watch Out For, 179
Eagleton, Mary, 2, 102
Eagleton, Terry, 191
Eckstein, Emma, 237, 238, 240
écriture féminine, 76, 130, 265
Edgeworth, Maria, 7, 55–7
Ego and the Id, The, 252
Egoist, The, 67
Eliot, George, 7, 59–60, 120, 175
Eliza, 33
Elizabeth I, Queen, 27
Ellis, Havelock, 179–80
Ellmann, Mary, 106, 113, 123, 125
embarrassment, 146, 147
embodiment see body, the
Emecheta, Buchi, 134
Emile, 53
enclosure metaphor, 130
Eneados see Aeneid translations
enfranchisement
France, 85
United Kingdom, 69–70, 76
see also Suffrage Bill; suffragists
Engendering Men, 201–2
Englishwoman, The, 67
Epistemology of the Closet, 310–11
L’Epistre au dieu d’Amours, 19
erotic, 174
escape metaphor, 130
essays, 116
essence, 225
Esther Hath Hanged Haman, 30
Europe’s Myths of Orient, 285
*Eve, 7, 28, 51, 52–3
evil mother myths, 90
experience, 172
extra-mural classes, 109
Faderman, Lillian, 169–70, 179, 180
Fallaize, Elizabeth, 9–10
family, 85
nuclear, 238–9
famous five, 109
Fanon, Franz, 285, 286, 287
Farwell, Marilyn, 169, 172, 177–8
fascism, 76 see also anti-fascism
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, 7
Fear of Flying, 115
fecundity myths, 89
Felman, Shoshana, 226–7
Felski, Rita, 110
Female Eunuch, The, 120, 122–3, 239
Female Imagination, The, 106, 111, 125–6
Female Reader, The, 66
Feminine Mystique, The, 239
feminine syntax, 76
Feminism and Masculinities, 189
Feminist Genealogies …, 290
Feminist Literary Criticism, 199
Feminist Press, 108–9, 124
Feminist Review, 114
feminist theory, in higher education, 124
femme fatale myths, 90
Ferenczi, Sandor, 249
Fernham College, 72, 82
Fetterley, Judith, 107
fiction, 8
Figes, Eva, 105–6, 120, 121
Finch, Anne, 30, 124
Firestone, Shulamith, 85
first-wave feminism
male involvement, 190
Flanagan, Mary, 322–3
Fleming, John V., 19
Fliess, Wilhelm, 237
Flores, Richard, 141
Florio, John, 39
fold, the, 220
Foster, Jeannette H., 170
Foucault, Michel, 301, 310, 314
Butler’s use of, 229, 307–8
on homosexuality, 198, 310
Saint Foucault, 316
Sedgwick’s use of, 310
Sprengnether on, 247–8
Weedon on, 285–6
Four Marys, The, 72
France
enfranchisement, 85
female authors, 60
feminist criticism 211 see also Cixous; Irigaray; Kristeva
French Revolution, 46
Frankenstein, 120, 126, 331
Free Indirect Discourse, 75
Freewoman, The, 67
French, Marilyn, 115
French Feminists on Religion, 263–4
Freud, Anna, 238
Freud, Sigmund, 112, 149, 235–42, 251–3
Friedan, Betty, 85, 239, 305
Fuller, Margaret, 8
Gallop, Jane, 140, 145
Garber, Linda, 169, 174–5
Gaskell, Mrs, 7
Gates, Henry Louis, 161, 162, 163
gender, 14, 50 see also masculinity
gender performativity, 174, 302, 308, 309
Gender Trouble, 3, 142–3, 307–9
Genet, Jean, 96
genres, 66
gendering of, 39
popular, 134
Gerrard, Nicci, 135
Gerson, Jean, 19, 23
Getting Personal, 142, 143, 145, 147–8
Gibson, William, 322, 330
Gilbert, Sandra, 110, 130
Gillis, Stacy, 212
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 8, 67, 108–9
Gilroy, Paul, 160
GLQ: Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, 314
Goblin Market, 126–7
God as male deity, 192
Godwin, William, 58
Golden Notebook, The, 123
Goldman, Emma, 46–7
Goldman, Jane, 9
Gonda, Caroline, 103
Gordimer, Nadine, 123
Gothic, 126–7, 331
Grahn, Judy, 171
Greer, Germaine, 121
Beauvoir’s influence, 85
Female Eunuch, 120, 122–3, 239
on Millett, 106, 111
Grier, Barbara, 170
*Griselda, 16
Grosz, Elizabeth, 228, 230, 323–4
Guattari, Félix, 225
Gubar, Susan, 110, 130
Gyn/Ecology, 290
gynocriticism, 47, 108, 110–11, 113, 124
hacking, 330
Hale, C. Jacob, 309
Hall, Donald E., 201
Hall, Marguerite Radclyffe, 77, 175
Halperin, David, 302, 316
Hamer, Diane, 176
Hammonds, Evelyn, 159–60
Hanscombe, Gillian, 176–7
Haraway, Donna, 322, 324–5, 326, 333
Hardy, Thomas, 113
Harris, Bertha, 175
Harrison, Jane, 67
Hayles, N. Katherine, 323
Head, Bessie, 134
Heath, Stephen, 187, 194–5, 199–200
Hegel, Georg, 89
Heilbrun, Carolyn, 107
Heloise, 14
Henderson, Mae, 159
Hennegan, Alison, 172, 179, 180
Henryson, Robert, 17
Heroes and Villains, 123
heroinism, 110
heterosexual couples, 92–4
Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives, 177
Hidden from History, 125
history, 150–1, 286, 297–8
cultural, 286–7, 288–9
writing of, 39
History of Sexuality, The, 310
Hit-him-home, Joan, 28, 34, 35
Hitlerism, 81
Hoccleve, Thomas, 21
Hogarth Press, 67
Hogeland, Lisa Maria, 115
Holland, Norman, 140
Holland, Sharon, 174–5
Hollibaugh, Amber, 312–13, 316
Holtby, Winifred, 8
Holy Mother myths, 90
homosexuality, 302, 310
hooks, bell, 128, 159, 292
Horney, Karen, 238
Hothead Paisan, 179
Huggins, Jackie, 296
Hulme, Keri, 134
Hunt, Krista, 327–8
Hurston, Zora Neale, 155
Huyssen, Andreas, 330
hybridity, 327
cultural, 288, 294
hysteria, 235, 239
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 155
identity, 302, 327
politics of, 77
Identity Poetics, 174–5
Imaginary, the, 245
Imlay, Gilbert, 58
immigration, 276
Imperial Leather, 287
imperialism, gendering of, 287
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, 116
incest, 217, 241–2
Inconsequence, 178
independence, 87, 91, 92, 93
India, 288, 293
International Feminist Book Fair, 133
Internet, 327–8
Interpretation of Dreams, The, 236–7
intersectionality, 154
intersubjective theory, 248–9
InVersions, 171
Irigaray, Luce, 114, 225, 227, 228, 230, 245, 246, 264, 266, 267–8
on body, 263, 264
on self, 221
Speculum …, 225–6, 246
This Sex …, 246, 267–8
When Our Lips Speak Together, 114
Irma see Eckstein, Emma
Iron John, 199
Islam, 292
iteration, 228–9
Jackson, Shelley, 331
Jacobus, Mary, 113–14, 131
Jagose, Annamarie, 175, 178
James, Henry, 302
Jane Eyre, 110, 123, 291
Jardine, Alice, 196, 200
Jardine, Lisa, 132
Jazz, 163–4
Jocelin, Elizabeth, 30, 31–2, 124–5
Johnson, Barbara, 160, 312
Jones, Ann Rosalind, 270–1
Jong, Erica, 115
journals, feminist, 67, 114–15, 133
Joyce, Joyce A., 161, 162
Julian of Norwich, 13, 14
Jung, Carl, 88
Kabani, Rana, 285
Kamuf, Peggy, 266
Kant, Immanuel, 219
Kaplan, Cora, 46, 111, 112, 124, 133
Keizer, Arlene, 103
Kempe, Margery, 7, 22–4
Kennard, Jean, 172
Kennedy, Barbara, 327
Klein, Melanie, 238
Knox, John, 27
Kolko, Beth E., 329
Kopelson, Kevin, 173
Kristeva, Julia, 114, 130, 227–8, 245, 246, 264, 266, 269
on body, 263, 264
Des Chinoises, 114
écriture féminine, 130
Moi on, 132
Lacan, Jacques, 242
Colebrook on, 223
influence of, 132–3
Mitchell’s reliance on, 244
on phallus, 201
Showalter on, 112
Sprengnether on, 244–5, 251–2
symbolic order, 130
Thomas on, 204
Ladder, The, 170
Landscape for a Good Woman, 149, 150
Lanerolle, Ros de, 129
Lanser, Susan, 180
Lanyer, Aemelia, 32, 36, 39
Latin, 11, 12–13
Laugh of the Medusa, The, 3, 114, 116, 117, 138
lavender menace, 305
Lawes, Henry, 35
Lawrence, D. H., 91, 92–3, 96, 111
Le Fèvre, Jehan, 15
Leaning Tower, The, 81
Leavis, F. R., 120
Legend of Good Women, 18, 21, 24
Lehmann, Rosamund, 109
Lerner, Gerda, 163
lesbian feminist criticism, 129, 169–86
Lesbian Images, 171
Lesbian in Literature, The, 170
Lesbian Lives Conference, Dublin 169
Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures, 173–4
Lesbian Pillow Book, The, 180
Lesbian Postmodern, The, 169
Lesbian Texts and Contexts, 175
lesbianism, 77, 243, 301, 304–6, 312–13
Lessing, Doris, 123
Letter of Cupid, 21
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination, 57
Letters for Literary Ladies, 55–7
Letters of Julia and Caroline, 57
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 87–8, 216, 217
library access denied to Woolf, 37, 72
Life as We Have Known It, 79
Light, Alison, 134–5
linguistic turn, 104, 188–9
Lister, Anne, 179
literacy, 7
literary materialism, 72–3
Literary Theory, 191
Literary Women, 126–7
Literature of Lesbianism, The, 180
Literature of Their Own, A, 109–10, 127
Little Review, 67
Livingston, Jennie, 309
Livre de La Cité des Dames, 22, 24
Loomba, Ania, 286
Lorde, Audre, 159, 174, 295, 298
love, 93
Love, Heather, 2, 212
Love Shook My Senses, 180
Lovelace, Ada, 326
Love’s Creation, 72
Lundgren-Gothlin, Eva, 89
Lure of Knowledge, A, 174
Lykke, Nina, 322
m/f, 114–15
McCarthy, Mary, 123
McClintock, Anne, 287
McDowell, Deborah, 156–7, 163
McIntosh, Mary, 114
McNaron, Toni, 172
Madwoman in the Attic, The, 129
magazines, feminist, 67, 114–15, 133
Magic Toyshop, The, 123
Makin, Bathsua, 66
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 220
Man-Made World, The, 67
Mandarins, The, 87
Manly, Susan, 8–9
Marcus, Steven, 240
Marks, Elaine, 114, 130
marriage, 28–9, 177
in France, 60
Martin, Biddy, 174
Martindale, Kathleen, 169, 178
Martineau, Harriet, 58–9
Marx, Karl, 192
Marxism, 112
Marxist criticism, 88
Marxist-Feminist Literature Collective, 132–3
Mary Tudor, Queen, 27
Marys, The Four, 72
masculinity, 94, 187, 190
*Mason, Bertha, 110, 291
master–slave dialectic, 89
maternity see motherhood
matricide, 268
Matrix, The, 329–30
Mauriac, François, 85
Meese, Elizabeth, 172–3, 176
melancholy, 252–3
Memmi, Albert, 276
men and feminism, 103–4, 187–208
Men in Feminism, 195–6
Merchant’s Tale, 16
Merck, Mandy, 96, 302–3
Meredith, George, 121
metaphor, 271
Meulenbelt, Anja, 175
Meun, Jean de, 18
Middle Ages, 11–26
Midnight Birds, 163
Mill, John Stuart, 60–1
Miller, Nancy K., 138, 139, 143–6, 150, 151
But Enough about Me, 144–5, 147
Getting Personal, 142, 143, 145, 147–8
‘Man on Feminism’, 197
Millett, Kate, 105
Beauvoir’s influence, 9, 85, 86, 96–7
criticism of, 111–12
Sexual Politics, 96, 105, 106, 120–2, 128, 239
Mills, Sara, 287
Milton, John, 8, 51, 52–3
Minh-Ha, Trinh T., 292–3
Mirza, Heidi Safia, 294
misogyny, 14, 91
in literature, 107
Mitchell, Juliet, 105, 112, 112, 122
Beauvoir’s influence, 85
Psychoanalysis and Feminism, 132–3, 244
Mitchell, Steven A., 249
MMPORGS, 329
Modern Language Association Forum [on personal criticism], 140–2
modernism, 131
modernist aesthetic, 75
Moers, Ellen, 110, 126–7
Mohanty, Chandra, 285, 289–90
Moi, Toril, 71, 86, 131–2, 139
on Woolf, 131
*Molly Millions, 330
monarchs, female, 27, 28
Montherlant, Henry de, 91, 92
Montrelay, Michèle, 114
Moraga, Cherríe, 295, 296–7, 312–13
Moreton-Robinson, Aileen, 297
Morrison, Toni, 155, 163–4
mortality, 148, 149, 150
mother–daughter relationship, 243
mother–infant relationship, 238, 241–3
motherhood, 276
Beauvoir, 85
Cixous, 245–6
Kristeva, 269
Mothers Legacie, The, 30, 130
Moulsworth, Martha, 37–8
Ms., 114, 115–16
Mukherjee, Bharati, 117
Munda, Constantia, 30, 38, 124
Munt, Sally, 171–2
Murdoch, Iris, 123
Murphy, Peter F., 189, 190
My Dangerous Desires, 316
Myers, Mitzi, 54, 55
mystery, feminine, 90–1
myth, 10
Beauvoir, 86–92, 97
Mythologies, 91, 193
mythopoetic men’s movement, 199
Nakamura, Lisa, 329
naming, 272–4
Namjoshi, Suniti, 176–7
Narayan, Uma, 290, 293, 297–8
narrative and lesbianism, 177–8
nature, 192
Nelson, Cary, 193
Nestle, Joan, 306
Neuromancer, 322, 324, 330
New Freewoman, The, 67
New French Feminisms, 130
New Left Review, 122
New Lesbian Studies, The, 178
New York Prefaces, 302
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of see Cavendish, Margaret
Newnham College, Cambridge see Fernham College
Nichols, Grace, 134
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 192
Nightingale, Florence, 108–9
noir, 330–1
Norquay, Glenda, 66
Northanger Abbey, 7–8
nuclear family, 238–9
Oakley, Ann, 85
object relations theory, 242–4
objectivity, 140
O’Brien, Edna, 123
Oedipus concept, 236, 251, 253
Of Woman Born, 242
Olsen, Tillie, 107, 242
On Gender and Writing, 133
Onlywomen Press, 109
Orientalism, 134, 285, 287
Osborne, Dorothy, 36–7
other, the, 14, 95
woman as man’s, 88–9, 90, 97, 204
Our Nig, 163
Ovid, 19
Palmer, Paulina, 169, 175–6
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, 34–5
pamphlets, 34
Pandora, 124
Pappenheim, Bertha see Anna O.
Paradise Lost, 51, 52–3
*Pardoner, 16
Paris is Burning, 309
Parshley, Howard, 85
Passions between Women, 180
Patchwork Girl, 331
Patmore, Coventry, 79
Patriarchal Attitudes, 105, 120, 121
patriarchy, 70, 120, 187, 251, 253
Patterns of Dissonance, 228
Paul, Saint, 28
Penguin Lives of Modern Women, 133
performativity, 142–3, 228–9
gender, 174, 302, 308, 309
Miller on performance, 142
Perry, Ruth, 141
personal criticism see autobiography
phallocentrism, 239
phallogocentrism, 221
phallus, 201
Philips, Katherine, 28–9, 35
Pizan, Christine de, 15, 19–22
Plant, Sadie, 326–7
Plath, Sylvia, 123
Plato, 217
Playing in the Dark, 163–4
poetry, 76, 176–7
postcolonialism, 133–4, 211–12, 282–300
meanings, 285
post-feminism, 1
postmodernism, 327
meanings, 214
poststructuralism, 131, 214–34
black literary criticism, 161, 162, 164
definition, 214
power, 92–4, 286, 307–8, 310
Practical Education, 55
Pratt, Louise Mary, 287
pregnancy, 246
Price, Richard, 54–5
Progress of Romance, The, 134
*Proserpina, 16
Prosser, Jay, 309
prostitution in cyberspace, 330
protofeminism, 2, 24, 28, 29
psychoanalysis, 235–62, 286, 287, 315–16
and black literature, 158–9
Psychoanalysis and Feminism, 132–3, 244
psychoanalytic criticism, 88
publishers, 67, 108–9, 114, 124, 133, 180–1
Pygmalion myths, 90
Quashie, Kevin Everod, 160
Queer Nation, 313
queer theory, 159–60, 201–2, 212, 301–21
and lesbian feminist thought, 169, 179
race, 134, 295
in cyberspace, 328–30
lesbian, 171
Radclyffe Hall, Marguerite, 77, 175
Radford, Jean, 134
Radicalesbians, 170, 305
Raitt, Suzanne, 175
Randall, Anne Frances [Mary Robinson], 57
*Rani of Sirmur, the, 291
Rank, Otto, 241
Ray, Sangeeta, 285
reading, 172
reading groups, 109
*Rebecca [Ivanhoe], 58
Recasting Women, 288
Reconstructing Womanhood, 158
rectal turn, 201, 202–3
rectum, 201
Refusing to Be a Man, 199
religious devotion, 33
Remedies of Love, 19
representation, 74–5, 114
Reproduction of Mothering, The, 242–3
reproductive technologies, 190
Resisting Reader, The, 107
Revelation of Love, 13
reverse discourse, 314
Revolving Lights, 78–9
rewriting, 11
Rhys, Jean, 123
Rich, Adrienne, 116, 172
Compulsory Heterosexuality …, 3, 170, 174, 243, 305–6
on mothering, 242
When We Dead Awaken, 116, 117, 138
Richardson, Dorothy, 78–9
Riddy, Felicity, 13
Riley, Denise, 50–1
Robinson, Mary, 57
Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of 33
Rogers, Katharine M., 106, 107
Rolle, Richard, 13
Romance of the Rose, 15, 18–21
Roof, Judith, 174, 177, 178
Room of One’s Own, A, 2, 9, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71–8, 106, 139
Rose, Romance of the, 15, 18–21
Rossetti, Christina, 126–7
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 8, 53
Rowbotham, Sheila, 124–5
Rubin, Gayle, 304, 306–7
Ruddick, Sarah, 139
Rule, Jane, 171
Ruthven, K. K., 199
Sade, Marquis de, 87, 94–5, 97
Said, Edward, 134, 285, 287
Saint Foucault, 316
Salvaggio, Ruth, 173, 174
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, 32
sameness, 267
Sangari, Kumkum, 288
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 86
sati, 290
Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers, 163
Schreiner, Olive, 8
Schuster, Marilyn, 171
Schwartzer, Alice, 114
Schwarz, Henry, 285
Scott, Ridley, 330
Scott, Sir Walter, 58–9
Second Sex, The, 9, 85–92, 106, 239
second-wave feminism, 6, 72, 102, 121, 190, 239, 304
defined, 2
second-wave feminist criticism
aims, 9, 282
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 142, 146–7, 174, 302, 310–11
See, Sarita, 159
self, medieval, 23; see also subjectivity
self-censorship, 143–4
self-doubt, hidden, 125
Sellar and Yeatman, 132
Sellers, Susan, 133
Seltzer, Mark, 198
(Sem)Erotics, 172–3
semiology, 193
sex–gender system, 304
Sex Variant Women in Literature, 170
Sex Wars, 303
sexology, 194–5
Sexual Fix, The, 194–5
Sexual Politics, 96, 105, 106, 120–2, 128, 239
Sexual/Textual Politics, 71, 131–2, 139
sexuality, female, 85, 96
*Shakespeare, Judith, 68, 76, 78, 116
Shakespeare, William, 37, 75
shame, 146–7
She Came to Stay, 89
Shelley, Mary, 7, 120, 126, 331
Shiach, Morag, 270
Showalter, Elaine, 8, 47, 108, 110, 112, 113
A Literature of Their Own, 109–10, 127
Towards a Feminist Poetics, 107, 108
on Woolf, 139
Sidney, Mary, 31
Sidney, Philip, 35
signs, 74
Signs, 114, 116
Silences, 242
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, 324
Sister’s Choice, 127
Smith, Barbara, 127–8, 155, 156, 159, 283
Smith, Henry, 29
Smith, Paul, 196
Smyth, Ethel, 68
Sociable Letters, 31, 37
sonnets, 34–5
Sowernam, Esther, 28, 30, 66
Spacks, Patricia Meyer, 106, 109, 111, 125–6
Spare Rib, 115
Spark, Muriel, 123
Speculum of the Other Woman, 225–6, 246
Spillers, Hortense, 158–9
Spivak, Gayatri, 285, 290–2
Spraggs, Gillian, 176, 180
Sprengnether, Madelon, 211
Springer, Claudia, 329–30
Stanton, Domna C., 271
Star Trek, 322
statistics of treatment of women, 9–10, 340
Steedman, Carolyn, 149–51
Stein, Gertrude 129
Stendhal, 9, 92, 93, 94
stepmother myths, 90
Still, Judith, 211
Stimpson, Catharine, 116, 176
Stoltenberg, John, 187, 199
Stone, Roseanne Allucquère, 332
Stopes, Marie, 72
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 8
Strachey, Ray, 67
Strangers to Ourselves, 276
structuralism, 88, 131 see also poststructuralism
definition, 214, 215
Studies in Hysteria, 235
subjectivity, 103, 143–4, 171, 307–8
sublime, the, 47–8
subversive writing, 130
Suffrage Bill 1918 [UK], 69 see also enfranchisement
suffragists, 69, 70, 80
Summit, Jennifer, 17
Surpassing the Love of Men, 179
Swetnam, Joseph, 28, 30
Synners, 331
Tate, Claudia, 140, 159
Tattlewell, Mary, 28, 34, 35
Taylor, Barbara, 50, 124–5
Taylor, Harriet, 58
technology, history of, 324
Temps Modernes, Les, 87
1066 and All That, 132
Tenth Muse, The, 33
*Tess, 113
Testament of Cresseid, 17
texts, 6, 16, 22–3, 211, 219, 220, 221–2
textuality, 2, 6, 13, 131
Tharu, Susi, 288–9
theoretical turn, 111–15
theory, 132
Garber on, 174–5
theory wars, 131
Thinking about Women, 106, 113
Thinking Sex, 306
Third Life of Grange Copeland, The, 155
Third World, Smith on, 283 see also postcolonialism
This Bridge Called My Back, 163, 304
This Sex Which Is Not One, 246, 267–8
Thomas, Calvin, 103–4
Thoughts of Peace in an Air Raid, 81–2
Three Guineas, 69, 70–1
Time and Tide, 67
Timeaus, 217
Todd, Janet, 50–1, 112
Tomkins, Silvan, 147
Tompkins, Jane, 145, 146, 148
Touching Feeling, 142
Toward a Recognition of Androgyny, 107
Towards a Feminist Poetics, 107, 108
Tragedy of Mariam, The, 39–40
translation, by women, 39
transsexualism, 309
Traub, Valerie, 180
trauma theory, 249–50
travel writing, 287
Troilus and Criseyde, 17
Troublesome Helpmate, The, 106, 107
Truth, Sojourner, 8
Turkle, Sherry, 329
Umpierre, Luzma, 172
uncanny, the, 325–6
Under Western Eyes, 289–90
universities
African American studies, 161–3
feminist theory, 124–5
lesbian criticism, 173
literature syllabuses, 102–3, 120, 134, 190–1
women’s studies, 301
see also Fernham College
Urania, 31
use of this book, 3
Vadim, Roger, 95
Vaid, Sudesh, 288
Vermeule, Blakey, 311
Villette, 106, 121
Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 9, 49, 50, 51–3, 54, 59
Vindications, 47
Virago, 109, 124, 133
Virginia’s web, 72–3
virginity myths, 89–90
Vives, Juan Luis, 32
Volcanoes and Pearl Divers, 175
Walker, Alice, 116, 117, 128, 155
Color Purple, 129
In Search …, 116
Third Life …, 155
Wallace, David, 14–15
Wandor, Michelene, 133
war, 70–1, 81–2
Second World War aftermath, 238
Warland, Betsy, 171
Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 176
Washington, Mary Helen, 163
Watkins, Gloria see hooks, bell
weaving, 326–7
Weber, Max, 96
Weedon, Chris, 211–12
Well of Loneliness, The, 77
What Sappho Would Have Said, 180
What We’re Rollin Around in Bed With, 312–13
When Our Lips Speak Together, 114
When We Dead Awaken, 116, 117, 138
White, Antonia, 109
Whitford, Margaret, 270
Whitney, Isabella, 32
Wide Sargasso Sea, 123 see also Jane Eyre
*Wife of Bath, 7, 12, 14, 15–16
Wilcox, Helen, 7
Wilson, Harriet, 163
Winterson, Jeanette, 175
wit, gendering of, 39
Wittig, Monique, 86, 172, 307
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 8–9, 46–61
biography, 46–7, 55, 58
book reviews, 54–5
critical works about, 66
Woman-Identified Woman, The, 305
Woman’s Leader, 67
women
education, 12, 29, 31–2
as readers, 35–7, 73–4
representation, 2, 6, 34–5
treatment of, statistics, 9–10, 340
Women, Resistance and Revolution, 125
Women of Bloomsbury, 141
Women Writing and Writing about Women, 113, 131
Women Writing in India, 288–9
Women’s Co-Operative Guild, 80
women’s groups [UK], 124–5
Women’s Liberation Movement, 122, 190
Women’s Press, 109, 124, 129
Women’s Room, The, 115
Women’s Sharp Revenge, The, 28, 34, 35
Woolf, Virginia, 2, 9, 40, 46–7, 66–82, 120
on Chaucer, 24
as critic, 138, 139
criticism of, 131
lesbianism, 129, 175
library access denied, 37, 72
Millett on, 121
Moi on, 139
philosophy of, 67–8
Room …, 2, 9, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71–8, 106, 139
Showalter on, 139
Spacks on, 125
Three Guineas, 69, 70–1
Virginia’s web, 72–3
work, right to, 69
Working Women’s Guild, 79
Wretched of the Earth, The, 285
Wright, George, 140
writing process, 38
Wrongs of Woman, The, 47, 59
Wroth, Mary, 30–1, 34–5
Wuthering Heights, 120, 126
Wynter, Sylvia, 160
Yellow Wallpaper, The, 108–9
yoga, 276
Young, Iris Marion, 201
Zeros and Ones, 326
Zimmerman, Bonnie, 129, 170, 175, 176
Žižek, Slavoj, 222, 223–4, 226
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