Gender and reading : essays on readers, texts, and contexts /
edited by Elizabeth A. Flynn and Patrocinio P. Schweickart.
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1986.
- xxx, 306 pages ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: p. 289-303.
The reader's construction of meaning : cognitive research on gender and comprehension / Mary Crawford and Roger Chaffin -- Reading ourselves : toward a feminist theory of reading / Patrocinio P. Schweickart -- Ourself behind ourself : a theory for lesbian readers / Jean E. Kennard -- Taking the gold out of Egypt : the art of reading as a woman / Susan Schibanoff -- Fathers and daughters as readers of the Tatler / Kathryn Shevelow -- Malraux's women : a re-vision / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- Reading about reading : "A jury of her peers" "The murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The yellow wallpaper" / Judith Fetterley -- "As the twig is bent ..." Gender and childhood reading / Elizabeth Segel -- Guaranteed to please : twentieth-century American women's bestsellers / Madonne M. Miner -- Gothic possibilities / Norman N. Holland and Leona F. Sherman -- Gender interests inreading and language / David Bleich -- Gender and reading / Elizabeth A. Flynn.
"An unprecedented encounter between feminist criticism, reading-research and reader-response criticism...I found 'Gender and Reading' a valuable book to read as a feminist critic. Valuable because it asserts our rights, as women, to read; to read as women. Valuable because it begins a dialogue among so many varieties of criticism and theory."--Susan Squier, 'Women's Review of Books.'