| Contents |
Part 1. Major texts of feminism. Observations on the state of degradation to which woman is reduced by various causes / Mary Wollstonecraft ; From The subjection of women / John Stuart Mill -- Part 2. Literature by and about women. A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen ; From Aurora Leigh / Elizabeth Barrett Browning ; For my lover returning to his wife / Anne Sexton ; The abortion / Anne Sexton ; Housewife / Anne Sexton ; Lesbos / Sylvia Plath ; Mr. Durant / Dorothy Parker ; Cruel and barbarous treatment / Mary McCarthy -- Part 3. Literary criticism. The lady novelists / George Henry Lewes ; From A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf ; The subjection of women / Elizabeth Hardwick ; Phallic criticism / Mary Ellmann ; No important woman writer / Hortense Calisher -- Part 4. Women and psychology. Some aspects of woman's psyche / Marynia F. Farnham and Ferdinand Lundberg ; The sexual solipsism of Sigmund Freud / Betty Friedan ; Psychology constructs the female, or the fantasy life of the male psychologist / Naomi Weisstein -- Part 5. Contemporary views. Theory of sexual politics / Kate Millett ; How now Kate? / Ernest van den Haag ; Women's lib gets rough / Jonathan Yardley. |
| Abstract |
Examples of fiction, poetry and drama dealing with the feminine experience and historical, psychological and sociological statements about women. |
| Local note | Stuart Wright Book Collection #76.10. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2011 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Showalter, Elaine. Women's liberation and literature |
| LCCN | 79153750 |
| ISBN | 0155961950 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780155961951 (paperback) |
