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Critical Condition Feminism at the Turn of the Century

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ISBN-10: 0231115806

ISBN-13: 9780231115803

Edition: 2000

Authors: Susan Gubar

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Is feminism dead, as has been claimed by notable members of the media and the academy? Has feminist knowledge, with its proliferation of methodologies and fields, been purchased at the price of power? Are the conflicts among feminists evidence of self-destructive infighting or do they herald the emergence of innovative modes of inquiry? Given a feminism now ensconced within higher education as specialized or fractious scholarship, Susan Gubar's Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century demonstrates that an invigorated concentration on activism and artistry can accentuate not the clinical or disparaging meaning of "critical" but its sense of compelling urgency and irreverent…    
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Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 2/3/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Susan Gubar, Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University, has coauthored and coedited several books with Sandra M. Gilbert, including The Madwoman in the Attic;its three-volume sequel, No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century;the newly revised Norton Anthology of Literature by Women;and their spoof, Masterpiece Theatre: An Academic Melodrama.Her most recent book is Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture.

Acknowledgments
Enormous Changes At The Last Minute
Introduction
Women Artists and Contemporary Racechanges
Lesbian Studies 101 (As Taught by Creative Writers)
Eating the Bread of Affliction: Judaism and Feminism
The Graying of Professor Erma Bombeck
Contending Forces
What Ails Feminist Criticism?
Feminist Misogyny; or, The Paradox of "It Takes One to Know One"
A Chapter on the Future
Notes
Works Cited
Index