Feminist literary history: How do we know we’ve won?

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This essay pronounces the death of women’s writing as a fi eld of study and then argues for its resurrection. Women’s writing needs a new body; the hard-fought gains in institutional infrastructure for its study-the editing projects, databases, scholarly organizations, journals and curricula- must continue. But its current content, its specifi c modes of study, has placed the fi eld on a trajectory to scholarly morbidity. We need a new queen of the Amazons. She might resemble her mother in scholarly rigour and attentiveness to intersectional differences, but she will look more like her second-wave grandmother in her theoretical boldness and political commitment.

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Binhammer, K. (2016). Feminist literary history: How do we know we’ve won? In Women’s Writing, 1660-1830: Feminisms and Futures (pp. 51–68). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54382-0_5

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