Thinking about WomenExamines attitudes toward and presentations and stereotypes of women in English, American, and continental literature from Jane Austen to Norman Mailer, and explores the views of male critics regarding women writers |
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Contents
Phallic Criticism | 27 |
HI Feminine Stereotypes | 55 |
Responses | 175 |
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| Title | Thinking about Women Volume 179 of Harvest book |
| Author | Mary Ellmann |
| Edition | reissue |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968 |
| ISBN | 0156899000, 9780156899000 |
| Length | 240 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General Social Science / Women's Studies |
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