Modern American critics since 1955. Gale Research Co., 1988. A Feminist Dictionary . This clearly political attempt to compensate for the masculinist biases of most available dictionaries can be useful to researchers for its compilation of citations from a wide range of women's writing. Entries not only give a thumbnail history of a given concept from the perspective of feminist scholarship but also quote liberally from the widest possible range of women's voices.
Entries are often amusing and thought-provoking in their juxtaposition of points of view.
Cross References are often very useful. Lentricchia, Frank and Thomas McLaughlin, eds. Critical Terms for Literary Study . University of Chicago Press, 1990. 1990 Salem, Dorothy C., Ed.