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050 00 $aPS147$b.O94 1994
082 00 $a810.9/9287/03$aB$220
245 04 $aThe Oxford companion to women's writing in the United States /$ceditors in chief, Cathy N. Davidson, Linda Wagner-Martin ; editors, Elizabeth Ammons [and others].
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1995.
263 $a9410
300 $axxx, 1021 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 970-977) and index.
520 $aHere is a gold mine of information about women's writing, women's history, and women's concerns - 771 entries, ranging from short biographies to extensive essays. The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States provides a comprehensive, authoritative, and highly informative survey of women writers and their work as it also illuminates the issues that fired their imaginations.
520 8 $aThe volume boasts contributions by many of today's well-known cultural and literary critics, including Susan Faludi writing on backlash, Deborah Tannen on communication between the sexes, Jane Gallop on Lacanian psychoanalysis, Sidonie Smith on autobiography, Trudier Harris on passing, Nancy Armstrong on daughters, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis on poetry.
520 8 $aThere are over four hundred biographical profiles of not only important poets, novelists, and playwrights (including such contemporary figures as Wendy Wasserstein, Louise Erdrich, Anne Tyler, Amy Tan, Alice Walker, Annie Dillard, Joyce Carol Oates, Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, and Tama Janowitz), but also of women writers who have made important contributions in other fields - Margaret Mead, Betty Friedan, Rachel Carson, and Susan B. Anthony. Perhaps most important, there is extensive coverage of the many personal, cultural, and historical issues that have been explored by, and have influenced the lives and productivity of, women writers: race and racism, violence and sexual harassment, health, AIDS, the Civil War, the women's movement, and much more.
520 8 $aThere is also coverage of the publishing world (women's bookstores and presses), the art and practice of writing, and contemporary literary criticism (including deconstruction, black feminism, and lesbian literary theory).
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$vDictionaries.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$vBio-bibliography.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$vDictionaries.
650 0 $aWomen authors, American$vBiography$vDictionaries.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010118773
700 1 $aDavidson, Cathy N.,$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79135597
700 1 $aWagner-Martin, Linda.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85275077
700 1 $aAmmons, Elizabeth.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79078222
852 00 $bbar$hPS147$i.O94 1995
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