Subject to Negotiation: Reading Feminist Criticism and American Women's Fictions

by Elaine Neil Orr

In Subject to Negotiation, Elaine Neil Orr proposes negotiation as both a state of consciousness and a significant movement for women writers as well as feminist critics. Challenging the "subversive" model of feminist criticism, she argues for the importance of negotiation for feminist practice within a plurality of critical positions and identities. Without claiming the final word- indeed calling for more words on the subject- Orr sketches an empirical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813917158
• ISBN13: 9780813917153
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"