Still mad : : American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1950-2020

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Call Number: 810.992 Gi, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Social Science / Gender Studies / Gilbert, Sandra M.
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

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Introduction. The possible and the impossible -- Midcentury separate spheres -- Race, rebellion, and reaction -- Three angry voices -- The sexual revolution and the Vietnam War -- Protesting patriarchy -- Speculative poetry, speculative fiction -- Bonded and bruised sisters -- Identity politics -- Inside and outside the ivory closet -- Older and younger generations -- Resurgence -- Epilogue. The white suit.
"A brilliant, sweeping history of the contemporary women's movement told through the lives and works of the literary women who shaped it. Forty years after their first groundbreaking work of feminist literary theory, The Madwoman in the Attic, award-winning collaborators Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar map the literary history of feminism's second wave. In Still Mad, they offer lively readings of major works by such writers as Sylvia Plath, Lorraine Hansberry, Adrienne Rich, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Toni Morrison. To address shifting social attitudes over seven decades, they discuss polemics by thinkers from Kate Millett and Susan Sontag to Audre Lorde, Andrea Dworkin, and Judith Butler. As Gilbert and Gubar chart feminist gains-including creative new forms of protests and changing attitudes toward gender and sexuality-they show how the legacies of second wave feminists, and the misogynistic culture they fought, extend to the present. In doing so, they celebrate the diversity and urgency of women who have turned passionate rage into powerful writing"-- Provided by publisher.

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