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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LITERARY THEORY, CRITICISM AND PHILOLOGY
http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html
by José Ángel GARCÍA LANDA
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

ON FEMINIST CRITICISM
Top Ten
General
Miscellaneous
On lesbian feminist criticism

Top Ten

Belsey, Catherine, and Jane Moore, eds. The Feminist Reader: Essays
in Gender and the Politics of Literary Criticism. London:
Macmillan, 1989. 1996.*
de Lauretis, Teresa, ed. Feminist studies / Critical Studies. London:
Macmillan, 1988.*
Eagleton, Mary, ed. Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader. 2nd ed.
Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.*
Greene, Gayle, and Coppélia Kahn, eds. Making a Difference:
Feminist Literary Criticism. London: Methuen, 1985.
Humm, Maggie, ed. A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Feminist
Literary Criticism. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf,
1994.
Moi, Toril. Sexual/Textual Politics. 2nd ed. (New Accents). London:
Routledge, 2002. (Available in electronic edition).
Ruthven, K. K. Feminist Literary Studies: An Introduction.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984.*
Sellers, Susan. Feminist Criticism: Theory and Practice. Hemel
Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991.
Showalter, Elaine, ed. The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on
Women, Literature, and Theory. 1985. London: Virago, 1986.*
Warhol, Robyn R., and Diane Price Herndl, eds. Feminisms: An
Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. Rev. ed.
Houndmills: Macmillan, 1997.*
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General

Armstrong, Isobel, ed. New Feminist Discourses: Critical Essays on

Theories and Texts. London: Routledge, 1992.
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taraceas: desconstrucción feminista de los discursos del
género. Alcalá de Henares: Servicio de Publicaciones de la
Universidad de Alcalá, 2000.
Benstock, Shari, Suzanne Ferriss and Susanne Woods. A Handbook of
Literary Feminisms. New York: Oxford UP, 2002.
de Lauretis, Teresa, ed. Feminist Studies / Critical Studies.
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_____, ed. Feminist studies / Critical Studies. London: Macmillan,
1988.*
Diamond, Arlyn. "Practicing Feminist Literary Criticism." Women's
Studies International Quarterly 1 (1978): 149-52.
Domínguez Caparrós, José. "Capitulo XXVIII. Crítica feminista." In
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Donovan, Josephine, ed. Feminist Literary Criticism: Explorations in
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Eagleton, Mary. Working with Feminist Criticism. Oxford: Blackwell,
1996.*
Ecker, Gisela, ed. Feminist Aesthetics. Boston: Beacon Press, 1985.
Greene, Gayle, and Coppélia Kahn, eds. Making a Difference:
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_____, eds. Changing Subjects: The Making of Feminist Literary
Criticism. London: Routledge, 1993.
Gubar, Susan. Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the
Century. 2000.
Guerin, Wilfred L., et al. "Feminist Approaches." In A Handbook of
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Hennesy, Rosemary. Materialist Feminism and the Politics of
Discourse. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Humm, Maggie. Feminist Criticism: Women as Contemporary
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_____, ed. A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary
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Jacobus, Mary. Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism. New
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Leighton, A. "Feminist Literary Theory: An Introduction." Occasional
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Meese, Elizabeth A. Crossing the Double-Cross: The Practice of
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Millard, Elaine. "Feminism II: Reading as a Woman. D. H. Lawrence,
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Douglas Tallack. London: B. T. Batsford, 1987. 135-58.*
Miller, Nancy K. "Arachnologies: The Woman, the Text, and the
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Moi, Toril. Sexual Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory. 1985.
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_____. Sexual/Textual Politics. 2nd ed. (New Accents). London:
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_____. "Feminist Literary Criticism". In Modern Literary Theory: A
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Newton, Judith Lowder, and Deborah Rosenfeld, eds. Feminist
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_____. What Price Utopia? Essays on Ideological Policing,
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Ruthven, K. K. Feminist Literary Studies: An Introduction.
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Selden, Raman. "Marxist and Feminist Criticism." In Selden,
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Selden, Raman, Peter Widdowson and Peter Brooker. "Feminist
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Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. 4th ed. Hemel
Hempstead: Prentice Hall-Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1997. 121-
49.*
Sellers, Susan. Feminist Criticism: Theory and Practice. Hemel
Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991.
Showalter, Elaine. "Toward a Feminist Poetics." 1979. In The New
Feminist Criticism. Ed. Elaine Showalter. London: Virago,
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_____. "Towards a Feminist Poetics." In Debating Texts. Ed. Rick
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_____. "Towards a Feminist Poetics." In Modern Literary Theory: A
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_____. "Towards a Feminist Poetics." In Essentials of the Theory of
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_____. "Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness." Critical Inquiry 8.1
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_____. "Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness." In Showalter, The New
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_____. "Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness." In Modern Criticism
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_____. "Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness." In Contemporary
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_____. "A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in
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_____. "A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in
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Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. "Feminism and Critical Theory." 1986.
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93.*
_____. "Feminism and Critical Theory." 1986. In Contemporary
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_____. "1. ¿Por qué los Estudios de las Mujeres?" Introd. and trans.
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(1992): 20-25.*

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_____. "Freedom of Interpretation: Bakhtin and the Challenge of
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Dimock, Wai-Chee. "Feminism, New Historicism, and the Reader."
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_____. "A Map for Rereading: Gender and the Interpretation of
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Anthologies

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Koertge, Noretta, and Daphne Patai, eds. Professing Feminism:
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Eagleton, Mary. A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory. (Concise

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Clepsydra.
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Related works

Lengermann, Patricia Madoo, and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley.

"Contemporary Feminist Theory." In George Ritzer,
Contemporary Sociological Theory. 3rd ed. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1992. 308-57.*
Spongberg, Mary, Ann Curthoys, and Barbara Caine, eds. Companion
to Women's Historical Writing. Houndmills: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005.

Series

(Cultura y Diferencia. Teorías Feministas y cultura contemporánea.

Pensamiento crítico / pensamiento utópico, 187). Rubí
(Barcelona): Anthropos, 2010.

(Feminismos). Series ed. Isabel Morant Deusa (U de Valencia).

Madrid: Cátedra / Universidad de Valencia /Instituto de la
Mujer.

(Perspectiva feminista). Madrid: Síntesis, 2010.

Lesbian feminist criticism

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Munt, Sally. New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Reading.
Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992.
Watkins, Susan. "Lesbian Feminism and Queer Theory: Adrienne
Rich, 'Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence',
Monique Wittig, 'The Straight Mind', Judith Butler, Gender
Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Jeanette
Winterson: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit." In Watkins,
Twentieth-Century Women Novelists: Feminist Theory into
Practice. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2001.
Wolfe, Susan J., and Julia Penelope, eds. Sexual Practice, Textual
Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism. Cambridge (MA):
Blackwell, 1993.*
Zimmerman, Bonnie. "What Has Never Been: An Overview of
Lesbian Feminist Literary Criticism." Feminist Studies 7.3
(1981): 451-76.

See also On Gay and Lesbian criticism.