Title: Gender and reading : essays on readers, texts, and contexts /
Authors: Schweickart, Patrocinio P.; Flynn, Elizabeth A., 1944-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 1986
Subjects: Women in literature; Sex role in literature.; Feminism and literature.; Women Books and reading.; Reader-response criticism.; Feminist literary criticism.
Contents: The reader's construction of meaning : cognitive research on gender and comprehension / Mary Crawford and Roger Chaffin -- Reading ourselves : toward a feminist theory of reading / Patrocinio P. Schweickart -- Ourself behind ourself : a theory for lesbian readers / Jean E. Kennard -- Taking the gold out of Egypt : the art of reading as a woman / Susan Schibanoff -- Fathers and daughters as readers of the Tatler / Kathryn Shevelow -- Malraux's women : a re-vision / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- Reading about reading : "A jury of her peers" "The murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The yellow wallpaper" / Judith Fetterley -- "As the twig is bent ..." Gender and childhood reading / Elizabeth Segel -- Guaranteed to please : twentieth-century American women's bestsellers / Madonne M. Miner -- Gothic possibilities / Norman N. Holland and Leona F. Sherman -- Gender interests inreading and language / David Bleich -- Gender and reading / Elizabeth A. Flynn.