The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women wr
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Elaine Showalter
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Elaine Showalter is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She influenced feminist literary criticism in the United States academia, developing the concept an
Women's writing (literary category)
…Spender, Dale, Mothers of the Novel: 100 good women writers before Jane Austen. London and New York: Pandora Press, 1986. ISBN 0-86358-081-5 Showalter, Elaine, A Literature of their own: from Charlotte Bronte to Doris Lessing. London: Virago Press, 1977. Spacks, Patricia Meyer, The Female Imagination: A…
Showalter receiving an honorary degree in 2001