November 19, 1996
Some Important Texts in the History of Feminist Lit Crit 

Mimetic (Images of Women)  Archetypal  Pragmatic  Expressive (Women Writer)  Theory  French Feminism  Social Context

 

1929    Virginia Woolf    Room ofOne'sOwn

1938    Virginia Woolf    Three Guineas

1953    Simone de Beauvoir    The Second Sex (1949 translated in 1953)

1963    Betty Friedan    The Feminine Mystique

Moers, EllenLiterary Women

1968    Mary Ellmann    Thinking About Women

1970    Kate Millett    Sexual Politics

1971    Norman Mailer    The Prisoner of Sex

1972    Patricia Meyer Spacks    The Female Imagination

    Susan Cornillion, ed.    Images of Women in Fiction

1973    Carolyn Heilbrun    Toward a Recognition of Androgyny

1974    Elizabeth Hardwick    Seduction and Betrayal

    Molly Haskell    From Reverence to Rape; Women in the Movies

    Alice Walker    "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens"

1975    Helene Cixous     “The Laugh of the Medusa"

    Jane Rule    Lesbian Images

    Annette Kolodny    "Some Notes on Defining a 'Feminist Literary Criticism'." 

    Donovan, Josephine, ed.    Feminist Lit Crit: Explorations in Theory

1977    Elaine Showalter    A Literature of Their Own

    Barbara Smith    "Towards a Black Feminist Criticism"

1978    Judith Fetterley    The Resisting Reader

    Jane Thompkins    "Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin"

    Nina Baym    Women's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by & abt Women in America

Julia P. Stanley & Susan J. Wolfe“Toward a Feminist Aesthetic”

1979Sandra Gilbert & Susan GubarThe Madwoman in the Attic

Carolyn HeilbrunReinventing Womanhood

1980Annette Kolodny "Dancing Through the Minefield”

Carol ChristDiving Deep and Surfacing

Michele BarrettWomen's Oppression Today

Barbara ChristianBlack Women Novelists: Development of a Tradition

Marks & DeCourtrivon, edsNew French Feminisms

Nina Baym"Melodramas of Beset Manhood”

1981Carol Pearson & Katherine PopeFemale Hero in Brit & Am Lit

Annis PrattArchetypal Patterns in Women's Poetry

Ann Rosalind Jones"Writing the Body: Toward an Understand­ing of l'Ecriture Feminine”

Catherine Stimpson"Zero Degree Deviancy: The Lesbian Novel in English”

Bonnie Zimmerman“What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Lit Crit”

Lillian FadermanSurpassing the Love of Men

Elaine Showalter"Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness."

1982Carol GilliganIn a Different Voice

Elizabeth Abel, ed.Writing and Sexual Difference (Critical Inquiry)

Jane GallopThe Daughter’s Seduction

Hull, Bell-Scott, & SmithAll the Wmn Are White. . .But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Wm's

Jonathan Culler"Reading As a Woman" in On Deconstruction

Jane Marcus“Storming the Toolshed”

1983Alice WalkerIn Search of Our Mother's Gardens

Cherrie Morgan & Gloria AnzalduaThis Bridge Called My Back

Joanna RussHow to Suppress Women's Writing

Lillian Robinson"Treason Our Text"

Barbara Christian"Trajectories of Self-Definition: Placing Contem­porary Afro-American Women's Fiction"

1984Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar, edsThe Norton Anthology of Lit by Women

1985Elaine Showalter, ed.The New Feminist Criticism

Eliane ShowalterThe Female Malady

Toril MoiSexual/Textual Politics

Alice JardineGynesis: Configurations of Women and Modernity

Luce IrigaraySpeculum of the Other Women(1974)

Kahn & Greene, eds.Making a Difference:Fem Lit Crit

Christian, Barbara.Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers

1986Flynn & Schweikert, eds..Gender and Reading

Shari BenstockWomen Writers of the Left Bank

1987Alice Jardine & Paul Smith. Eds.Men in Feminism

1988Gilbert and Gubar, The War of the Words, Vol. I of No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century

Linda Alcoff"Cultural Feminism vs. Post-Structuralism"

1989Elaine Showalter"A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in Afro-American and Feminist Literary Theory

Gilbert & GubarNo Man’s Land II: Sexchanges

1990Barbara Smith"The Truth that Never Hurts: Black Lesbians inFiction in the 1980"s"

Boone & CaddenEngendering Men: Question of Male Fem Crit

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Epistemology of the Closet

1991Dale M. Bauer , Susan Jaret McKinstry, edsFeminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic

1993Warhol & HerndlFeminisms

Gayle Greene & Coppelia Kahn, eds.Changing Subjects: The Making of Feminist Lit Crit

Pam MorrisLiterature and Feminism

1994Barbara Christian"Layered Rhythms: Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison”

Gilbert & GubarNo Man’s Land III: Letters from the Front