Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic, 40 years after its first ground-breaking work of feminist literary theory, charts the literary history of feminisms second wave, from its stirrings in the midcentury to a resurgence in the new millennium. They offer lucid, compassionate, and piercing readings of major works by these writers and others, examining the overlapping terrain of literature and politics in a comprehensive portrait of an expanding movement. They celebrate the diversity and urgency of women who have turned passionate rage into powerful writing.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 464 pages
Publication date: 09 September 2022
Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Forty years after their groundbreaking work of feminist literary theory, The Madwoman in the Attic, award-winning collaborators Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar have mapped the literary history of feminisms second wave. From its stirrings in the midcentury, when Sylvia Plath, Betty Friedan, and Joan Didion found their voices, and Diane di Prima, Lorraine Hansberry, and Audre Lorde discovered community in rebellion, to a resurgence in the new millennium in the writings of Alison Bechdel, Claudia Rankine, and N. K. Jemisin, Gilbert and Gubar trace the evolution of feminist literature. They offer lucid, compassionate, and piercing readings of major works by these writers and others, including Adrienne Rich, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Susan Sontag, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Toni Morrison. Activists and theorists like Nina Simone, Gloria Steinem, Andrea Dworkin, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Judith Butler also populate these pages as Gilbert and Gubar examine the overlapping terrain of literature and politics in a comprehensive portrait of an expanding movement. As Gilbert and Gubar chart feminist gains, including creative new forms of protests and changing attitudes toward gender and sexuality, they show how the legacies of second wave feminists and the misogynistic culture they fought extend to the present. In doing so, they celebrate the diversity and urgency of women who have turned passionate rage into powerful writing.

Weight: 362g
Dimension: 138 x 209 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781324022084