Books written by Susan Fraiman

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  Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development

  By stressing the rival stories in a single text, Unbecoming Women provides a fresh assessment of the Bildungsroman. Instead of the usual question - "How does the hero of this novel come of age?

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  Cool Men and the Second Sex

  ... sponsored important work not only on women and lesbianism but also on femininity and femme-ness. I'm thinking of writers like Joan Nestle, Arlene Istar, Pat Califia, Jewelle Gomez, Lynda Hart, Lisa Duggan, and Kathleen McHugh, ...

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  Erasing the Commas: RaceGenderClassSexualityRegion

  This special issue of American Literature testifies that enactments of race, gender, class, sexuality, and region cannot be separated and considers the new questions that emerge when the commas between these constructs are erased and their ...

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  Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development

  To write a four hundred - page book on Austen in the context of proliferating feminist perspectives on her — by Nina Auerbach ( 1972 ) , Susan Gubar ( 1975 ) , Patricia Spacks ( 1975 ) , Ellen Moers ( 1976 ) , Lillian Robinson ( 1978 ) ...

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  Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins

  Cisneros's chapter “Bums in the Attic” may even be an allusion to Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the NineteenthCentury Literary Imagination (New Haven, Conn.

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  Cool Men and the Second Sex

  I agree that this focus makes historical sense; what bothers me is the earlier token inclusion of women, which effectively masks Ross's choice (only re- inforced by the use of Susan Sontag) to assume a male subject throughout this ...

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  Cool Men and the Second Sex

  Staves , Susan . Married Women's Separate Property in England , 1660-1833 . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1990 . Stearns , Peter N. American Cool : Constructing a Twentieth - Century Emotional Style .