Book Reviews -- Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poerty and Theory Edited by Lynn Keller and Cristanne Miller

Morris, Timothy, Style

Lynn Keller and Cristanne Miller, eds. Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry and Theory. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. x + 410 pp. $49.50 cloth; $22.95 paper.

The most widely and frequently cited author in Feminist Measures is Adrienne Rich. This seems completely appropriate; as a major figure in women's poetry and feminist theory, Rich is a natural authority for work that considers the intersection of poetry, feminism, and theory. But more often than not, Rich appears in these essays as an authority to be challenged, a theorist whose categories and analyses now seem more limiting than liberating. One way to see the collection Lynn Keller and Cristanne Miller …

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Publication information: Article title: Book Reviews -- Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poerty and Theory Edited by Lynn Keller and Cristanne Miller. Contributors: Morris, Timothy - Author. Journal title: Style. Volume: 29. Issue: 3 Publication date: Fall 1995. Page number: 500+. © 1998 Northern Illinois University. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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