Gender and Culture

Presents a study of female authors including Burney, Austen, Bronte, and Eliot, who all wrote in England during the Georgian and Victorian periods in an attempt to address the issue of female character development.

Studies the struggles for interpretive power waged at the margins of canonical genres in letters and life stories about women in Mexico.

Explores gender and culture through the filter of feminist writing over the past several centuries.

Presents a collection of essays written between the mid 1970's and mid 1980's looking at documented nonfiction and theories in relation to the body challenging the split between public and private.

A collection of articles on the themes of gender and history, which attempts to articulate the nature of the connection between the two. It focuses on the variable and contradictory meanings attributed to sexual difference and the political processes by which those meanings are developed and contested.

Challenges the notion that women writers are unable to write about their pleasure and are 'estranged from language' by identifying contexts in which women find language empowering and in which women speak of their pleasure and find pleasure in speech.

Presents essays on women, whether as a reader, a writer, or as read; and especially as represented in and by Freudian and Laconian psychoanalysis.

Through an examination of the English novel in the mid-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century, this book argues that the emerging pattern of male friendship, mentorship, entitlement, rivalry and hetero- and homosexuality was in an intimate and shifting relation to class and that no element of that pattern can be understood outside of its relation to women and the gender system as a whole.

A collection of essays that question Freud's assumptions about femininity and female desire. Several essays situate their critiques within the context of contemporary French writing on psychoanalysis and feminism, while others display the variety and finesse of the interpretive strategies exercised by contemporary feminist critics.

A collection of essays spanning the years from 1975-1983 as the focus of the field of literary theory and criticism passed from structuralism to feminism and deconstruction. Part of a series of studies concerned with mapping the strategies deployed in representation to contain female libido.