Still mad : American women writers and the feminist imagination, 1950-2020 / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar.

Author/creator Gilbert, Sandra M. author.
Other author Gubar, Susan, 1944- author.
Format Book
EditionFirst edition.
PublicationNew York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2021]
Descriptionxiii, 441 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
American literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Feminism and literature--United States. --History. --20th century.
Feminism and literature--United States. --History. --21st century.
Women and literature--United States. --History. --20th century.
Women and literature--United States. --History. --21st century.
American literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
American literature--21st century. --History and criticism.

Contents Introduction. The possible and the impossible -- Stirrings in the fifties. Midcentury separate spheres ; Race, rebellion, and reaction -- Eruptions in the sixties. Three angry voices ; The sexual revolution and the Vietnam War -- Awakenings in the seventies. Protesting patriarchy ; Speculative poetry, speculative fiction ; Bonded and bruised sisters -- Revisions in the eighties and nineties. Identity politics ; Inside and outside the ivory closet -- Recessions/revivals in the twenty-first century. Older and younger generations ; Resurgence -- Epilogue. White suits, shattered glass.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 359-412) and index.
Issued in other formebook version : 9780393651720
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2021012937
ISBN9780393651713 hardcover
ISBN0393651711 hardcover
ISBNelectronic publication
Standard identifier# 40030697667

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