Old wives' tales
Subtitle: feminist re-visions of film and other fictions
By: Tania Modleski
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781860643866
Subjects: American literature; History and criticism; Theory; Feminism and literature; History; Women and literature; Feminism; Feminist criticism; Feminism and motion pictures; Women in motion pictures; Aufsatzsammlung; Feminismus; Literatur; Rezeption; Film; Frau
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: feminist criticism today: notes from Jurassic Park; title: Breaking silence, or an old wives' tale: sexual harassment and the legitimation crisis; 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: the work of Anna Deavere Smith; title: Do we get to lose this time? revising the Vietnam War film; title: Woman's gotta do; title: what a man's gotta do? cross-dressing in the Western; title: Something else besides a mother: reflections of a feminist on the death of her mother; title: Notes; title: Works cited; title: Index.