Feminism and literature
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The perverse gaze of sympathy
Virginia Woolf & postmodernism
The handbook of nonsexist writing
The Black feminist reader
Milan Kundera & feminism
Good girls make good wives
A reader's guide to contemporary feminist literary criticism
Anxious power
Women in modern drama
With her in Ourland
Prairie women
Sexuality in the Field of Vision (Radical Thinkers) (Radical Thinkers)
A Vocabulary of Thinking
Boss ladies, watch out!
Women reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900
Dance of the sexes
Margaret Atwood's fairy-tale sexual politics
Bessie Head
Feminist utopias
The madwoman can't speak, or, Why insanity is not subversive
Approaches to teaching Atwood's The handmaid's tale and other works
Prophetic Woman
Showing like a queen
Writing women's literary history
Refiguring modernism
The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative
Gender and reading
Reading in detail
Feminist theatre
The clubwomen's daughters
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