Title: Scheming women
First published: 1995
Description: Scheming Women charts a trajectory of American female poetic speakers from within a heterosexual lyric framework to bisexual lyric and lesbian subjects outside that pervasive frame. In close readings of Dickinson, Moore, H.D., and Rich, the author makes a new argument about the division that permeates their poetic speaking subjects.

Postulating a revolutionary female subject, she extends Julia Kristeva's theory of poetic language through an intertextual approach, and shows that these relatively advantaged female poets destructure the very poetic power they are able to assert.

Hogue concludes that in not reproducing positions of dominance and privilege indicative of larger cultural trends, these key poets exemplify important alternatives to class, race, and gender hierarchies - persuasively demonstrating the promise of what she terms an ethical feminist poetic practice.
Subjects: History and criticism, Theory, History, Feminism and literature, Feminist poetry, Lesbians' writings, American, Women authors, Subjectivity in literature, American poetry, Women and literature, Authorship, Sex differences, American Feminist poetry, American poetry, women authors, American poetry, history and criticism, Lesbians' writings, history and criticism, Authorship, sex differences
Places: United States
LC classification: PS310.F45 H64 1995