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Rooms of Our Own
Susan Gubar
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Description for Rooms of Our Own
Paperback. The once and future history of sex and gender Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 458. Weight in Grams: 345.
With a little help from Virginia Woolf, Susan Gubar contemplates startling transformations produced by the women's movement in recent decades. What advances have women made and what still needs to be done? Taking Woolf's classic A Room of One's Own as her guide, Gubar engages these questions by recounting one year in the life of an English professor.
A meditation on the teaching of literature and on the state of the humanities today, her chapters also provide a crash course on the challenges and changes in feminist intellectual history over the past several decades: the influence of post-structuralism and of ... Read more
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Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
345g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252073793
SKU
V9780252073793
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About Susan Gubar
Susan Gubar, Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University, is the author of many books, including The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, coauthored with Sandra M. Gilbert.
Reviews for Rooms of Our Own
Received an Honorable Mention Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights (2007). "Rooms of Our Own will charm and hearten fans of Woolf's works.Indeed, much of the delight and effectiveness of the book comes from Gubar's deft incorporation not only of Woolf's structure, but of her memorable turns of phrase. As ... Read more