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Book Reviews -- Men without Women: Female Bonding and the American Novel of the 1980's by Donald J. Greiner
Academic journal article from Journal of American Culture (Malden, MA), Vol. 18, No. 1
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Men Without Women: Female Bonding and the American Novel of the 1980's. Donald J. Greiner. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993. 135 pp.
A latent indignation underlies Donald Greiner's study of female alliances in selected fiction by contemporary American women novelists which, despite his attempts to ground discussion in feminist theory, reveals a kind of petulance about women making and occupying their own worlds, as well as a failure to appreciate the powerful impetus that drives their attempts to circumvent or disrupt the patriarchal order. The book is articulate and offers some thoughtful insights, but on the whole it seems ultimately to be more of a bellyache …
