Boss ladies, watch out!
Subtitle: essays on women, sex, and writing
By: Terry Castle.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Authorship -- Sex differences.; Feminist literary criticism.; Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries.; Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.; Women in literature.; Sex in literature.
Description: "Boss Ladies, Watch Out! brings together in a convenient format Terry Castle's most scintillating recent essays on literary criticism, women's writing and sexuality. Readers of Castle's many books and reviews already know her as one of the most incisive and witty critics writing today.".

"The articles collected in Boss Ladies, Watch Out! constitute an extended meditation - both learned and personal - on just what it means to be a Female Critic. In the book's opening essays Castle examines how women became critics in the first place - scandalously at times - in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She explores in particular Jane Austen's "talismanic" role in the establishment of a female critical tradition.

In the second part of the book, Castle embraces, with gusto, the role of Female Critic herself." "In lively reconsiderations of Sappho, Bronte, Cather, Colette, Gertrude Stein, and many other great women writers - "Boss Ladies" all - Castle pays a moving and civilized tribute to female genius and intellectual daring."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-286) and index.