Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism

by Gayle Greene

Book Overview

Feminist scholarship employs gender as a fundamental organizing category of human experience, holding two related premises: men and women have different perceptions or experiences in the same contexts, the male perspective having been dominant in fields of knowledge; and that gender is not a natural fact but a social construct, a subject to study in any humanistic discipline. This challenging collection of essays by prominent feminist literary critics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041501011X
• ISBN13: 9780415010115
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"