Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

318 Pages·2004·70.837 MB·English

by  Kathy J. Whitson

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Encyclopedia of
Feminist Literature
J.
K ATHY W HITSON
GREENWOOD PRESS
Westport, Connecticut • London
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
\•Vhitson, Kathy J.
Encyclopedia of feminist. literature / Kathy J. Whitson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliogr.iphical references and index.
lSllN 0-313-32731-9 (alk. paper)
l. \Vomcn authors- Bio-bibliogr:tpby. 2. Women and literatttre-Encydopcdias.
3. Feminise lirernrure- Encyclopedias. 4. Feminism and lircrarun:- Encyclopcdias.
5. Feminism in literarure-Encyclopedias. 6. Women in literature-r.ncvclopcdils.
I. Title.
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Contents
List of Entries vu
lntruJuction
IX
The Encyclopedia
Index 293

List of Entries
Abolition Domesticity
Allende, Isabel Erdrich, Louise
Allison, Dorothy Fauset, Jessie Redmon
Amazon Fern, Fanny
Androgy11y Foster, Hannah Webster
Angelou, Maya Friendship
Arnow, Harriecce Gaskell, Elizabeth
Atwood, Margaret Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Austen, Jane Gochie
Austin, Mary Hall, Radclyffe
Autobiography hooks, bell
Bame , 0 juna Hulme, Keri
Behn, Aphra Hurston, Zora Neale
Blixen, Karen Hysteria
Bronte, Charlotte Iron, Ralph
Bronte, Emily Jacobs, Harriet Ann
Brown, Rita Mae Jones, Gay!
Burdekin, Katharine Kelley, Edith Summers
Ca. tillo, Ana Kingston, Maxine Hong
Chopin, Kate Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin
Cisneros, Sandra Lispcctor, Clarice
Cofer, Judith Ortiz Lorde, Audre
Community Markham, Beryl
Davis, Rebecca Harding Marriage
de Pizan, Christine Marshall, Paule
0inesen, Isak McCullers, Carson
List of En tries
Vlll
Morrison, Toni Shange, Ntozake
Motherhood Shelley, Mary
Mukherjee, Bharati Silence and Voice
Spirituality
Naylor, Gloria
Stefan, Verena
New Woman
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Nightingale, Florence
Suffrage
Novel
Tan, Amy
Olsen, Tillie
True Woman
Petry, Ann
Walker, Alice
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart
Walker, Margaret
Piercy, Marge
Wharton, Edith
Pseudonyms
Wincerson, Jeanene
Regionalism
Wittig, Monique
Rich, Adrienne
Wolf, Christa
Rowson, Susanna
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Schreiner, Olive
Woman Question, the
Sedgwick, Catharine Marie
Woolf, Virginia
Sentimentalism Ya,namoto, Hisaye
Sexuality Yezierska, Anzia