Feminism : theory, criticism, analysis / by Sushila Singh

Includes works cited and index

Feminism: The movement and the ideology Recent trends in Feminist thoughts Utopian element in feminist thought Essentialist/ Constructionalist binarism in feminist literary theory Feminist literary criticism Woman as reader/writer perspective Woman and Academe in America (1860-1900) From the relational to individualistic: Woman in Elizabeth Cady Stanton Frontier in American History and the concept of Masculinity Woman in Norman Mailer's novels Margaret Drabble in Quest for the middle ground Joyce Carol Oates: The woman question in her exploration of the contemporary Human condition Joyce Carol Oates and Margaret Atwood: New world feminism Woman of the American West: Cultural pluralism and the question of identity Multiplying identities: theorizing difference