ENGL 3010: Introduction to Literary Studies: Gender Issues
Subject Headings and Keywords
When searching for information on feminist theory in the library catalog, databases, or internet search engines, use these subject headings or keywords:
- Feminism and Literature
- Feminism in Literature
- Feminist Literary Criticism
- Women and Literature
- Women in Literature
- Sex Role in Literature
When searching for information on queer theory in the library catalog, databases, or internet search engines, use these subject headings or keywords:
- Gays in Literature
- Gender Identity in Literature
- Homosexuality and Literature
- Homosexuality in Literature
- Queer Theory
Key Individuals/Feminism
Michele Barrett
Helene Cixous
Simone de Beauvoir
Mary Ellman
Judith Fetterley
Julio Kristera
Kate Millet
Judith Fetterley
Elaine Showalter
Virginia Woolf
Key Individuals/Queer Theory
Judith Butler
Helene Cixous
Jonathan Dollimore
Marguerite Duras
Michael Foucault
Claudia Herman
Jonathan Ned Katz
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Feminism Theory Books
In 1929, Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One's Own, defining a tradition of literature written by women. Modern feminist criticism began with Mary Ellman's Thinking About Women. Feminist critics view literature as primarily patriarchal (controlled by males). Feminine characters are seen as passive and emotional while the male characters are dominating and rational.
Feminisms : an anthology of literary theory and criticism by Call Number: PN98.W64 F366 1997ISBN: 0813523893
Feminist theory reader: local and global perspectives by Call Number: HQ1190 .F46346 2010ISBN: 9780415994781
Hamlet's mother and other women by Call Number: PR111 .H45 1990ISBN: 0231071760
Madness and sexual politics in the feminist novel : studies in Brontë, Woolf, Lessing, and Atwood by Call Number: PR830.W62 R5- The madwoman in the attic : the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination byCall Number: PR115 .G5
Reading black, reading feminist : a critical anthology by Call Number: PS153.N5 R38 1990ISBN: 9780452010451
Queer Theory Books
Completely Queer : the Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia by Call Number: REF HQ75 .H63 1998ISBN: 0805036296- Like a brother, like a lover : male homosexuality in the American novel and theater from Herman Melville to James Baldwin byCall Number: PS169.H65 S213 1978
Lovers and beloveds : sexual otherness in southern fiction, 1936-1961 by Call Number: PS374.H63 R53 2005ISBN: 0807130516
Monumental anxieties : homoerotic desire and feminine influence in 19th century U.S. literature by Call Number: PS374.H63 D47 1997ISBN: 0813524717
