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Still Mad

American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

Sandra M. Gilbert Susan Gubar

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English
Norton
17 September 2021
Forty years after their first groundbreaking work of feminist literary theory, The Madwoman in the Attic, award-winning collaborators Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar map the literary history of feminism's second wave.

From its stirrings in the midcentury-when Sylvia Plath, Betty Friedan, and Joan Didion found their voices and Diane di Prima, Lorraine Hansberry, and Audre Lorde discovered community in rebellion-to a resurgence in the new millennium in the writings of Alison Bechdel, Claudia Rankine, and N. K. Jemisin, Gilbert and Gubar trace the evolution of feminist literature. They offer lucid, compassionate, and piercing readings of major works by these writers and others, including Adrienne Rich, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Susan Sontag, Gloria Anzaldua, and Toni Morrison. Activists and theorists like Nina Simone, Gloria Steinem, Andrea Dworkin, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Judith Butler also populate these pages as Gilbert and Gubar examine the overlapping terrain of literature and politics in a comprehensive portrait of an expanding movement.

As Gilbert and Gubar chart feminist gains-including creative new forms of protests and changing attitudes toward gender and sexuality-they show how the legacies of second wave feminists, and the misogynistic culture they fought, extend to the present. In doing so, they celebrate the diversity and urgency of women who have turned passionate rage into powerful writing.

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Imprint:   Norton
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 236mm,  Width: 163mm,  Spine: 38mm
Weight:   768g
ISBN:   9780393651713
ISBN 10:   0393651711
Pages:   464
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Sandra M. Gilbert is a distinguished literary critic, poet, and professor emerita at the University of California, Davis. The author, most recently, of Judgment Day: Poems, she lives in Berkeley, California. Susan Gubar is an acclaimed memoirist, literary critic, and professor emerita at Indiana University. The author, most recently, of Late-Life Love: A Memoir, she lives in Bloomington, Indiana. Gubar is the co-author, with Sandra M. Gilbert, of The Madwoman in the Attic, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, among other volumes. In 2012, they were awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Book Critics Circle.

Reviews for Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

They've done it again! The personal, the political, the literary, the critical-the brilliant literary team of Gilbert and Gubar extend their foundational studies of women's writing to encompass the twenty-first century. Tracing the key events and writers of the second wave of the women's movement from the 1950s to the election of Biden and Harris, they map the tumultuous, explosive, and ongoing energies of American women's writing. Make space on your bookshelf for this lively and indispensable volume. -- Elaine Showalter, professor emerita of English, Princeton University Still Mad is clever, playful and full of memorable turns of phrase... and its combination of ideas, clear prose and enthralling stories will make it an important text not only for literary scholars and historians but also for the general reader. -- Martha Rampton - Literary Review


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