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Becoming and Bonding: Contemporary Feminism and Popular Fiction by American Women Writers (Chap. 5 "Mary Gordon: Christianity and Feminism")
by Katherine B. Payant. 246 pgs.

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Expounding the view that the feminist movement has both encouraged and enriched literature by women, Katherine Payant examines a large body of immensely popular but, for the most part, critically neglected fiction of the period from the late 1960s through the early 1990s, relating these writers and works to the women's movement and feminist theories. The study concentrates on popular fiction, which is seen as evidence of the widespread influence of feminism and as a vehicle for dissemination of "mainstream" feminist ideas. Chapters dealing with the 1970s and 1980s survey relevant feminist theories and tie them to representative novels. Chosen for special focus in individual chapters are Marge Piercy, Mary Gordon, and Toni Morrison, who reflect divergent perspectives on feminism. Written in accessible prose, this work will deepen the appreciation of readers of these novelists and increase their understanding of the effect of social movements on the arts.

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Copyright Acknowledgments

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Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

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2 The Bildungsroman of The 1970s: Growing Up Female In Patriarchy

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3 New Developments in The 1980s: Bonds Between Women

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4 Marge Piercy: the Radical Tradition

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5 Mary Gordon: Christianity And Feminism"

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6 Toni Morrison: African- American Women and Men, An Uneasy Alliance

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7 Conclusion

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Selected Bibliography

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Faith of a (Woman) Writer (Chap. 34 "In Search of 'Ordinary Human Happiness': Rebellion and Affirmation in Mary Gordon's Novels")
by Alice Kessler-Harris, William McBrien. 358 pgs.

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Reflecting the salient undercurrents of contemporary researh on women writers, this volume is an appraisal of the work of the writer as woman and presents critics' perceptions about how women writers have dealt with the complexity of changing female visions in the 20th century. Each of the 34 essays, contributed by some of today's most distinguished writers, speaks to the work of a particular 20th-century woman writer, and each constitutes a contribution to the scholarly debate.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Women's Studies

Copyright Acknowledgments

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1: Introduction

2: The (Woman) Writer

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3: Joyce Carol Oates's the Dead and Feminist Criticism

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4: Acts of Self-Creation: Female Identity in the Novels of Margaret Drabble

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5: Grave Endearing Traditions": Edith Wharton and the Domestic Novel"

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6: Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence, and Their Nineteenth-Century Forerunners

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7: The Poetic World of Snezhina Slavova

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8: Kay Boyle: In a Woman's Voice

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9: Two Women: The Transformations

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10: Effects of Urbanization in the Novels of Christiane Rochefort

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11: Irmgard Keun: A German Deviation

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12: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and Jean Rhys: What Rhys's Letters Show About That Relationship

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13: Literary Criticism

14: Miles Franklin: Chronicler of the Australian Bush and Early Feminist

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15: Edna St. Vincent Millay--Saint of the Modern Sonnet

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16: Domestic Comedy, Black Comedy, and Real Life: Shirley Jackson, a Woman Writer

17: Records of Survival: The Autobiographical Writings of Marieluise Fleisser and Marie Luise Kaschnitz

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18: Jhabvala's Fiction: The Passage from India

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19: Luise Rinser's Autobiographical Prose: Political Engagement and Feminist Awareness

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20: Women and Choice--A New Look at Simone De Beauvoir and the Second Sex

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21: Virginia, Virginius, Virginity

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22: Sexual Politics and Female Heroism in the Novels of Christina Stead

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23: Agnes Smedley's Cell Mates": A Writer's Discovery of Voice, Form, and Subject in Prison"

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24: The Transformation of Privilege in the Work of Elena Poniatowska

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25: Marguerite Yourcenar's Sexual Politics in Fiction, 1939

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26: A Way of Ordering Experience: A Study of Toni Morrison's the Bluest Eye and Sula

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27: A Voice of Authority

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28: Charlotte Delbo, a Woman/Book

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29: The Case of the Dangling Signifier: Phallic Imagery in Eudora Welty's Moon Lake""

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30: An End to Torment: H.D.'s Metonymic Course

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31: Leslie Stephen Revisited: A New Fragment of Virginia Woolf's A Sketch of the Past""

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32: Defeating the False God: Janie's Self- Determination in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

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33: The Woman Warrior: Claiming Narrative Power, Recreating Female Selfhood

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34: In Search of Ordinary Human Happiness": Rebellion and Affirmation in Mary Gordon's Novels"

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Catholicism & Anti-Semitism: An Evening with James Carroll & Mary Gordon, in Commonweal
by Paul Baumann. 1 pgs.

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Desperately Seeking Joan- Woman Behind the Hype, in Commonweal
by Mary Gordon. 4 pgs.

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Disease, Deformity, and Defiance: Writing the Language of Immigration Law and the Eugenics Movement on the Immigrant Body, in MELUS
by June Dwyer. 18 pgs.

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The Heart Is an Instrument: Portraits in Journalism ("The Other Side of Mary Gordon" begins on p. 245)
by Madeleine Blais. 341 pgs.

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Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Madeleine Blais is perhaps best known for her insightful essays chronicling the experiences of the disadvantaged and dispossessed members of our society. This volume gathers fifteen of her most memorable essays, vivid portraits that speak to the realities of contemporary American experience.

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Acknowledgments

Foreword

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The Disturbance

Mother Knows Best

Sandy's Baby

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The Time Of Her Life

A Room Of Her Own

Zepp's Last Stand

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Lethal Weapon

The Twisting Of Kenny White

The Babysitter

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Three Scenes From The Life of A Tormented Playwright

The Pope Of Quotations

The Other Side Of Mary Gordon

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At Nobody's Mercy

The Poet And The Birthday Girl

Monica's Barrel

Epilogue: Tris, Tamara, & Tennessee
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"Entering the Silence": Voice, Ethnicity, and the Pedagogy of Creative Writing, in MELUS
by Richard Teleky. 16 pgs.

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Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook ("Mary Gordon (1949-)" begins on p. 129)
by Mary R. Reichardt. 424 pgs.

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Women have been writing in the Catholic tradition since early medieval times, yet no single volume has brought together critical evaluations of their works until now. The first reference of its kind, Catholic Women Writers provides biographical, critical, and bibliographical entries on 64 Catholic women writers from around the world and across the centuries. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and is designed to acquaint the reader with the author, her major works, her Catholic and women's themes, and her critical reception. An introductory essay places the authors in the context and tradition of Catholic writing, and a selected, general bibliography lists works for further reading.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–1690)

Julia Alvarez (1950–)

Angela of Foligno (c.1248–1309)

Katherine Burton (1884?–1969)

Elizabeth Cary (1585–1639)

Madre Castillo (1671–1742)

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Willa Cather (1873–1947)

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Catherine of Genoa (1447–1510)

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Catherine of Siena (1347–1380)

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982)

Sandra Cisneros (1954–)

Clare of Assisi (1194–1253)

Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952–)

Elizabeth Cullinan (1933–)

Dorothy Day (1897–1980)

Annie Dillard (1945–)

Louise Erdrich (1954–)

Rosario FerrÉ (1938–)

Lady Georgiana Fullerton (1812–1885)

Rumer Godden (1907–1998)

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Caroline Gordon (1895–1981)

Mary Gordon (1949–)

Louise Imogen Guiney (1861–1920)

Madame Guyon (1648–1717)

Madame Guyon (1648–1717)

Emily Henrietta Hickey (1845–1924)

Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (c. 935–c. 975)

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Marie de L’incarnation (1599–1672)

Sor Juana InÉs de la Cruz (1648?–1695)

Julian of Norwich (c. 1342–after 1413)

Sheila Kaye-Smith (1887–1956)

Margery Kempe (c. 1373–c. 1440)

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Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (1851–1926)

Mary Lavin (1912–1996)

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Denise Levertov (1923–1997)

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Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987)

Mary Mccarthy (1912–1989)

Rigoberta MenchÚ (1959–)

Alice Meynell (1847–1922)

Pilar MillÁn Astray (1879–1949)

Kathleen Norris (1947–)

Edna O’brien (1932–)

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Flannery O’connor (1925–1964)

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Eunice Odio (1919–1974)

Sister Carol Anne O’marie (1933–)

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Emilia Pardo BazÁn (1851–1921)

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Christine de Pizan (1365–c.1430)

Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)

Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864)

Antonia Pulci (1452–1501)

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)

Mary Anne Sadlier (1820–1903)

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Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957)

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Valerie Sayers (1952–)

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Sophie Rostopchine, Countess de SÉgur (1799–1874)

Muriel Spark (1918–)

Edith Stein (1891–1942)

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Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542–1587)

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Teresa of Avila (1515–1582)

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ThÉrÈse of Lisieux (1873–1897)

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Sigrid Undset (1882–1949)

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Simone Weil (1909–1943)

Antonia White (1899–1980)

Selected General Bibliography

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