Tradition and the talents of women / edited by Florence Howe.

Other author Howe, Florence.
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1991.
Descriptionxviii, 379 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Running on with almost public voice : the case of "E. C." / Margaret W. Ferguson -- The polemics of incomprehension : mother and daughter in Pride and prejudice / Jean Ferguson Carr -- The cypher : disclosure and reticence in Villette / Karen Lawrence -- The girls who became women : childhood memories in the autobiographies of Harriet Jacobs, Mary Church Terrell, and Anne Moody / Nellie Y. McKay -- "We got our history lesson" : oral historical autobiography and women's narrative arts traditions / Jean M. Humez -- A feminist American success myth : Jane Addam's Twenty years at Hull-House / Lois Rudnick -- A journey into knowing : Agnes Smedley's Daughter of earth / Nancy Hoffman -- "Everybody steals" : language as theft in Meridel Le Sueur's The girl / Blanche H. Gelfant -- Laughing at Leviticus : Nightwood as women's circus epic / Jane Marcus.
Contents Women's interracial friendships and visions of community in Meridian, The salt eaters, Civil wars, and Dessa Rose / Nancy Porter -- Feminism, "postfeminism," and contemporary women's fiction / Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt -- Feminism on the border : from gender politics to geopolitics / Sonia Salvidar-Hull -- Miranda and Cassandra : the discourse of the feminist intellectual / Elaine Showalter -- From Uncle Tom's cabin to Vyry's kitchen : the black female folk tradition in Margaret Walter's Jubilee / Charlotte Goodman -- The needle or the pen : the literary rediscovery of women's textile work / Elaine Hedges.
General note"An Illini book from the University of Illinois Press"--P. [4] of cover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 90010835
ISBN0252061063 (paper : alk. paper)
ISBN0252016858 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS147 .T74 1991 ✔ Available Place Hold