Subject to negotiation
Subtitle: reading feminist criticism and American women's fictions
By: Elaine Neil Orr.
Series: Feminist issues; Feminist issues (Charlottesville, Va.)
Publisher: University Press of Virginia; University of Virginia Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Feminist fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Feminism and literature -- United States.; Women and literature -- United States.; Feminist literary criticism.
Description: In Subject to Negotiation, Elaine Neil Orr proposes negotiation as both a state of consciousness and a significant movement for women writers as well as feminist critics. Challenging the "subversive" model of feminist criticism, she argues for the importance of negotiation for feminist practice within a plurality of critical positions and identities.

Without claiming the final word - indeed calling for more words on the subject - Orr sketches an empirical method for a negotiating feminist criticism and then in successive chapters demonstrates the method at work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-144) and index.