Core List for Midterm Exam

*Didn't actually read, but talked about it
 

• 1927 Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
• 1949/53 *Simone deBeauvoir, The Second Sex (X)
• 1949 Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (XB)

 
• 1963 *Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
• Moers, Ellen , Literary Women
• 1968 Mary Ellmann, Thinking of Women

 
• 1970 Kate Millet, Sexual Politics (XB)
• 1977 Elaine Showalter, A Literature of Their Own --"The Female Tradition" (H&W)
• 1978 *Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering
• Judith Fetterley, The Resisting Reader --Introduction: On the Politics of Literature"(W&H)
• *Nina Baym, Women's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by & abt Women in America
• 1979 Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic--"Infection in the Sentence" (W&H)

 
• 1980 Nina Baym, "Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors" (XB)
• Annette Kolodny, "Dancing Through the Minefield" (W&H)
• 1981 Carol Pearson and Katherine Pope, The Female Hero in British and American Literature (XB)
• 1983 Lillian Robinson, "Treason Our Text" (W&H)
• 1983 Joanna Russ, How to Suppress Women's Writing "Anomalousness" (W&H)
• 1985 *Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar, eds, The Norton Anthology of Lit by Women
• Judith Kegan Gardiner, "Mind Mother: Psychoanalysis and Feminism"
• *Toril Moi, Sexual/Textual Politics
• M.H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms
• 1989 Lynn Pearce, "Sexual Politics" (On Kate Millett, XB)
• Sue Spaull, "Gynocriticism" (On Showalter, XB)
• Sue Spaull and Elaine Millard, "The Anxiety of Authorship" (on Gilbert and Gubar, XB)Deborah Madsen, "The Second Wave of American Feminism" (XB)

 
• 2000 Deborah Masden, Psychoanalytic Fem and Kate Chopin’s Awakening
• 2001 Steven Lynn, "Gendering the Text: Feminist Criticism" (XB)