Foreword
Introduction
Essays
Sexuality as Rebellion in George Orwell's 1984 by Paul
Bail
Woman's Roles and Influence in Mark Twain's The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn by Melissa Pennell
The War Against the Feminine: Remarque's All Quiet on the
Western Front by Mary Warner
"Doctor She": Helena and Sisterhood in Shakespeare's All's Well
that Ends Well by Terry Reilly
Mother, Wife, Fallen Woman: Marital Choice in Leo Tolstoy's Anna
Karenina by Lucy Melbourne
Righteous Activist or Confrontational Madwoman: Sophocles'
Antigone by Karen Bovard
Female Resistance to Gender Conformity in Kate Chopin's The
Awakening by Dana Kinnison
Mothers and Children in Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees
by Mary Jean DeMarr
Faulkner's Male Myth: The Bear by Kim Martin Long
More Than Skin Deep: Robin McKinley's Beauty: A Retelling of the
Story of Beauty and the Beast by Ellen R. Sackelman
Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar: Trapped by the Feminist
Mystique by Laurie Leach
Toni Morrison's Beloved: Maternal Possibilities, Sisterly
Bonding, by Monika Elbert
Richard Wright's Black Boy and Black Women by Kenneth
Florey
Culture, Tradition, Family: Gender Roles in Rudolfo Anaya's
Bless Me, Ultima by Montye P. Fuse
Girls into Women: Culture, Nature, and Self-Loathing in Toni
Morrison's The Bluest Eye by Barbara Frey Waxman
Founding Women's History: Christine de Pizan Writes The Book of
the City of Ladies by Ellen S. Silber
A Dystopic Vision of Gender in Aldous Huxley's Brave New
World by Cristie L. March
An Immigrant Girl's Quest for the American Dream in Anzia
Yezierska's Bread Givers by Norah C. Chase
As My Mother Says: Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwige Danticat
by Eileen Burchell
Non-Conformists and Traditionalists: Buchi Emecheta's The Bride
Price by Osayimwense Osa
The Symbolic Annihilation of Women in Jack London's The Call of
the Wild by Michelle Napierski-Prancl
Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Gender in the Middle
Ages by Michael G. Cornelius
Sex, Violence, and Peter Pan: J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the
Rye by PaulBail
Paths to Liberation in Alice Walker's The Color Purple by
Ernece B. Kelly
The Women in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment by Sydney
Schultze
Witchhunting, Thwarted Desire, and Girl Power: Authur Miller's
The Crucible by Karen Bovard
"A Nice Girl Ought to Know!": Henry James's Daisy Miller by
Laurie F. Leach
Redefining Female Absense in Death of a Salesman by Dana
Kinnison
Black and White Womanhood in Sherely Anne Williams' Dessa
Rose: Mammies, Ladies, and Rebels by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl: Writing a Self--The
Female Adolescent Voice by Hedda Rosner Kopf
The Slammed Door that Still Reverberates: Henrik Ibsen's A
Doll's House by Ann R. Shapiro
Frozen Lives: Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome by Melissa
McFarland Pennell
Catherine Barkley: Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms by
Suzanne del Gizzo
The Invisible Black Female Artist in Alice Childress's
Florence by Nassim W. Balestrini
Daring Creation: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Lucy
Morrison
Shattered Rainbows in Translucent Glass: Tennessee Williams's
The Glass Menagerie by Nassim W. Balestrini
What It Means to Be a Lady: Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the
Wind by Jane Marcellus
Patriarchy and Property: Women in Pearl S. Buck's The Good
Earth by Eleanor Pam
o Expectations at All: Women in Charles Dickens' Great
Expectations by James R. Simmons Jr.
Beautiful Fools and Hulking Brutes: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The
Great Gatsby by Linda C. Pelzer
Reading Between the Lines: Connecting with Gertrude and Ophelia in
Hamlet by Elizabeth Klett
Freedom Reconsidered: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
by Magali Cornier Michael
When Women Shape the World: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's
Herland by Jerilyn Fisher
Girls and Women in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango
Street
Fresh insights and interpretations makes these 96 original essays a valuable examination of gender issues in both canonical and contemporary works.
Jerilyn Fisher is Associate Professor of English at Hostos Community College, City University of New York. Ellen S. Silber is Professor of French at Marymount College.
?[e]xcellent anthology of novels and plays that are frequently
taught in high school and college English and Humanities
classes.... Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender
would make a wonderful text for continuing education courses for
high school English teachers, for adoption as part of the
curriculum for teachers-in-training, and, as a handbook or
refresher, for college instructors who took women and literature
courses as undergraduates. Anyone who took high school or college
English in pre-feminist-theory days will also enjoy reading that
s/he missed.?-School Library Journal
?[f]eminist scholars with wide educational experience offer a
wake-up call to teachers and students to identify and correct
stereotypical interpretations of both traditional and less familiar
literary texts....A reliable handbook for the generalist, this book
should interest primarily high school teachers as they prepare
syllabi but also possibly beginning college students and their
instructors....Lower-division undergraduates and general
readers.?-Choice
?An important contribution to the fields of literature, education,
and women's studies; highly recommended for both academic and large
public libraries.?-Library Journal
?Despite years of feminist criticism, there is still a gap on
reference shelves when it comes to a feminine approach to
literature. This collection of two- to three page signed essays
looking at 96 works of fiction (both canonical works and newer/less
familiar titles) is a sorely needed resource....most libraries will
want to consider this volume....Teachers looking for ways to shake
up their traditional reading lists and students looking for a
different approach to some classics will find this book of
interest.?-VOYA
?Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender would make
a wonderful text for continuing education courses for high school
English teachers, for adoption as part of the curriculum for
teachers-in-train-ing, and, as a handbook or refresher, for college
instructors who took women and literature courses as
undergraduates. Anyone who took high school or college English in
pre-feminist-theory days will also enjoy reading what s/he
missed.?-Feminist Collections
"Ýe¨xcellent anthology of novels and plays that are frequently
taught in high school and college English and Humanities
classes.... Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender
would make a wonderful text for continuing education courses for
high school English teachers, for adoption as part of the
curriculum for teachers-in-training, and, as a handbook or
refresher, for college instructors who took women and literature
courses as undergraduates. Anyone who took high school or college
English in pre-feminist-theory days will also enjoy reading that
s/he missed."-School Library Journal
"Ýf¨eminist scholars with wide educational experience offer a
wake-up call to teachers and students to identify and correct
stereotypical interpretations of both traditional and less familiar
literary texts....A reliable handbook for the generalist, this book
should interest primarily high school teachers as they prepare
syllabi but also possibly beginning college students and their
instructors....Lower-division undergraduates and general
readers."-Choice
"[f]eminist scholars with wide educational experience offer a
wake-up call to teachers and students to identify and correct
stereotypical interpretations of both traditional and less familiar
literary texts....A reliable handbook for the generalist, this book
should interest primarily high school teachers as they prepare
syllabi but also possibly beginning college students and their
instructors....Lower-division undergraduates and general
readers."-Choice
"An important contribution to the fields of literature, education,
and women's studies; highly recommended for both academic and large
public libraries."-Library Journal
"Despite years of feminist criticism, there is still a gap on
reference shelves when it comes to a feminine approach to
literature. This collection of two- to three page signed essays
looking at 96 works of fiction (both canonical works and newer/less
familiar titles) is a sorely needed resource....most libraries will
want to consider this volume....Teachers looking for ways to shake
up their traditional reading lists and students looking for a
different approach to some classics will find this book of
interest."-VOYA
"Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender would make
a wonderful text for continuing education courses for high school
English teachers, for adoption as part of the curriculum for
teachers-in-train-ing, and, as a handbook or refresher, for college
instructors who took women and literature courses as
undergraduates. Anyone who took high school or college English in
pre-feminist-theory days will also enjoy reading what s/he
missed."-Feminist Collections
"[e]xcellent anthology of novels and plays that are frequently
taught in high school and college English and Humanities
classes.... Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender
would make a wonderful text for continuing education courses for
high school English teachers, for adoption as part of the
curriculum for teachers-in-training, and, as a handbook or
refresher, for college instructors who took women and literature
courses as undergraduates. Anyone who took high school or college
English in pre-feminist-theory days will also enjoy reading that
s/he missed."-School Library Journal
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