I have been reading a lot about myself lately, and most of what I read is not very flattering. Although I’m a lapsed Catholic, I’ve seen myself described as a “remorseless Puritan” or even, in one ...

Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature,fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting newagendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history offeminist ...

The National Women's Studies Association Journal (NWSA Journal) publishes interdisciplinary and multicultural feminist scholarship focused on understanding women's lives. The NWSAJ accepts articles ...

Sandra Gilbert, pictured, co-wrote the landmark study with Susan Gubar: together they ‘stuck a wedge firmly into the frat house door’ of the western canon, wrote a later critic - Peter Basmajian ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Katie Roiphe STILL MAD American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination By Sandra M. Gilbert ...

Self-consciousness, self-reflexivity [1] and metafiction are terms often used to describe a particular characteristic common to postmodern fiction. Robert Alter has defined the “self-conscious novel” ...

This piece was drawn from the afterword to a new edition of “Sexual Politics,” by Kate Millett, which is out in February from Columbia University Press. In the fall of 2014 Time magazine published a ...