Feminist engagements : forays into American literature and culture

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This book offers historically-grounded, feminist interventions into American literary history by one of the country's leading scholars in American Studies. Integrating criticism, biography, social history, popular culture, and personal narrative Fishkin explores the poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century. These charismatic, readable essays range from explorations of feminist humor and chutzpah, to meditations on the personal and the political, to examinations of feminists' challenges to cultural paradigms. Fishkin s lively voice engages readers with the American past and leaves a bold stamp on the literary landscape.

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These "forays" are excellent examples of second-wave feminist scholarship. Fishkin (Stanford) situates herself and her work within larger cultural frameworks and models at least three important aspects of feminist scholarship. First, she engages women writers who, prior to the reemergence of feminism in the 1970s, had been ignored or undervalued. Second, she centers contemporary writers who have been marginalized or underestimated. Finally, she "walks her talk" by including her own experiments with writing. She pushes the boundaries of what constitutes scholarship in some essays and includes personal engagements and revelations in others. Though not in any way sacrificing intellectual rigor, this volume has a retrospective quality; the author revisits previously published essays and organizes them along a continuum that maps her evolution as a feminist critic. Fishkin's reflections on writers who have become feminist icons and her highly accessible analysis of their work are appropriate for less-experienced readers. More advanced students will benefit from notes, which are as fascinating as the analysis in the essays. Seasoned feminists will enjoy affirming reminders of the "ah-hah!" moments that for many mark their own coming to consciousness. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. M. M. Sullivan Mercyhurst College

Introduction	p. 1
I Changing the Story
The Borderlands of Culture	p. 15
Making a Change	p. 33
Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic	p. 47
Changing the Story	p. 63
Essentialism and Its Discontents	p. 81
II Men Reading and Writing Women/Women Reading and Writing Men
Dreiser and the Discourse of Gender	p. 91
Mark Twain and Women	p. 109
An Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston	p. 131
The Bondwoman's Escape	p. 139
III Humor and Chutzpah
Feminist Humor and Charlotte Perkins Gilman	p. 149
Theresa Malkiel's Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker	p. 167
Erica Jong	p. 177
Epilogue	p. 203
Notes	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 235
Acknowledgments	p. 267
Index	p. 269

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