Old wives' tales, and other women's stories
By: Tania Modleski.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Feminism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Feminist criticism -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and indexes.
Portions of some chapters have been previously published in slightly different form.
Table of contents: title: Breaking silence, or, An old wives' tale; title: Axe the piano player; title: My life as a romance reader; title: My life as a romance writer; title: The white Negress and the heavy-duty dyke; title: Doing justice to the subjects; title: Do we get to lose this time? Revising the Vietnam War film; title: A woman's gotta do ... what a man's gotta do? Cross-dressing in the Western; title: Something else besides a mother.