Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change

by Rita Felski and Rita Chang-Eppig

Book Overview

Beyond Feminist Aesthetics has a dual focus. First, Rita Felski gives a critical account of current American and European feminist literary theory, and second, she offers an analysis of contemporary fiction by women, drawing in particular on the genres of the autobiographical confession and the novel of self-discovery, in order to show that this literature raises questions for feminism that cannot be answered in terms of a purely gender...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674068955
• ISBN13: 9780674068957
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"