Title: Feminist Literary Criticism | The New York Public Library
Headings: Feminist Literary Criticism
Feminist Literary Criticism
Primary Sources on Feminist Theory
Some Secondary Sources on Feminist Theory
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Content: Once you have the citations (i.e., volume & issue #, year, etc.), and verify that the library owns the issues that you need, you must go to the Periodicals Desk on the fourth floor to retrieve the journal articles. Knowing if the author of the article is a feminist critic will be difficult until you gain some experience in feminist literary research. The following list will aid you in recognizing the names of some well-known, contemporary feminist critics: Kathy Acker, Annette Kolodny, Elaine Showalter, Carolyn Heilbrun, Nancy K. Miller, Sandra Gilbert, Andrea Dworkin, Susan De Salvo, Cynthia Ozick, Luce Irigary, Julia Kristeva, Catherine Clement, Alicia Ostriker, Helene Cixous, Jane Gallop, Shari Benstock, Coppelia Kahn, Toril Moi, Catherine Belsey, Adrienne Rich, Jacqueline Rose, and Camille Paglia. Primary Sources on Feminist Theory
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex 301.412 B (5th floor)
Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born 306.8473 R (5th floor)
Luce Irigaray, This Sex Which is Not One 155.3333 I (5th floor)
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own 824 Woolf
Nancy K. Miller, The Poetics of Gender 809.892 P
Patricia Meyer Spacks, The Female Imagination 820.9 S
Toril Moi, ed., The Kristeva Reader 808.0014 K
Dorothy Dinnerstein, The Mermaid and the Minotaur 301.41 D (5th floor)
Katherine M. Rogers, The Troublesome Helpmeet: The History of Misogyny in Literature 809.933 R
Toril Moi, Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory 801.9508 M
Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Toward a Recognition of Androgyny 809.933 H
Helene Cixous and Catherine Clement, The Newly Born Woman 305.4 C (5th floor)
Some Secondary Sources on Feminist Theory
Contemporary Literary Criticism. volume 76, pp.