Inventing Herself (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Elaine Cottler
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Women’s issues and history
- Time of Work: The mid-eighteenth century to the present
- Setting: England, the United States, France, and South Africa
- Principal Characters: Mary Wollstonecraft, Margaret Fuller, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Olive Schreiner, Eleanor Marx, Vera Brittain, Rebecca West, Margaret Mead, Mary McCarthy, Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag, Germaine Greer, Camille Paglia
- Genres: Nonfiction, Social issues, History
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Philosophy or philosophers, France or French people, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, England or English people, Feminism, Women’s issues, Eighteenth century, South Africa or South Africans
- Locales: France, United States, England, South Africa
Literary scholar Elaine Showalter, one of the founding mothers of American academic women’s studies, took her inspiration for this volume from an unrealized project of American anthropologist Ruth Benedict called Adventures in Womanhood—a work intended to document the stories of remarkable women intellectuals who had, in Benedict’s words, “made of their lives a great adventure.” Showalter terms her chosen subjects “feminist icons:” female “symbols of aspiration who have exercised both spiritual and psychological power over women for the last two centuries . . ....
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