Madness and Sexual Politics in the Feminist Novel: Studies in Brontë, Woolf, Lessing, and Atwood

by Barbara Hill Rigney

Book Overview

A greater part of the feminist movement has considered traditional psychology to be both a product and a defense of the status quo, a patriarchal society. Here, Barbara Hill Rigney explores emerging feminist psychology by applying it to literary works by women who have depicted the relationship between madness and the female condition. The result is a fascinating and illuminating exposition, certain to be welcomed by students and scholars in literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299077144
• ISBN13: 9780299077143
• Release Date: August 1980
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"