True Confessions
โ Scribed by Susan Gubar
- Book ID
- 112297175
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 237 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780393076431
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Twenty-seven pioneering thinkers share their discovery of and commitment to feminism in this essential collection.
In a series of autobiographical reflections, the contributors to True Confessions, including Gayatri Spivak, Sandra M. Gilbert, Hortense Spillers, and Martha Nussbaum, among others, tell us what experiences ground their activism and how they confronted the dilemmas they faced in the course of their training and careers. Why do a family's religious practices captivate or repel girls grappling with their parents' faith? What happens when a lesbian graduate student assumes she must be closeted, or when a female professor encounters hostility from other women on the faculty, or when a feminist professor is accused of sexually harassing her graduate students?
Susan Gubar has selected the most influential thinkers in the humanities to elucidate the origins as well as the consequences of their commitment to feminism and its...
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
In 1940s Los Angeles, an unidentified murder victim is found bisected in a shadowy lot. A catchy nickname is given her in jest—"The Virgin Tramp"—and suddenly a "nice little homicide that would have drifted off the front pages in a couple of days" becomes a storm center. Two brothers, Tom