Feminist Engagements : Forays into American Literature and Culture (Paperback)

Introduction PART I: Changing the Story "The Borderlands of Culture" "Making a Change" "Reading, Writing and Arithmetic" "Changing the Story" "Essentialism and its Discontents" PART II: Men Reading& Writing Women/Women Reading& Writing Men "Dreiser and the Discourse of Gender" "Mark Twain and Women" "An Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston" "The Bondwoman's Escape " PART III: Humor and Chutzpah "Feminist Humor and Charlotte Perkins Gilman" "Theresa Malkiel's Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker " "Erica Jong" Epilogue