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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 and practice of gynocritics, a term describing the study of "women as writers".

Books

Little Women
Little Women
Coralie Bickford-Smith, Elaine Showalter, Louisa May Alcott, Siobhan Kilfeather, Vinca Showalter
A Literature of Their Own
A Literature of Their Own
Elaine Showalter
Out of Time
Out of Time
Lynne Segal, Elaine Showalter
The Female Malady
The Female Malady
Elaine Showalter
The Female Malady
The Female Malady
Elaine Showalter
Little Women ; Little Men ; Jo's Boys
Little Women ; Little Men ; Jo's Boys
Louisa May Alcott, Elaine Showalter
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe
Elaine Showalter
Teaching Literature
Teaching Literature
Elaine Showalter
Hystories
Hystories
Elaine Showalter
A Jury of Her Peers
A Jury of Her Peers
Elaine Showalter
Elaine Showalter
Feminist criticism in the wilderness
Feminist criticism in the wilderness
Elaine Showalter
Hystories
Hystories
Elaine Showalter, Professor of English Elaine Showalter
Literature of Their Own
Literature of Their Own
Elaine Showalter
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe
Elaine Showalter
Sexual Anarchy
Sexual Anarchy
Elaine Showalter
Daughters of Decadence
Daughters of Decadence
Elaine Showalter
Faculty Towers
Faculty Towers
Elaine Showalter
Hysteria Beyond Freud
Hysteria Beyond Freud
Roy Porter, Sander L. Gilman, Elaine Showalter, Sander Lawrence Gilman, Helen King, G. S. Rousseau
Sister's Choice
Sister's Choice
Elaine Showalter
Sexual Anarchy
Sexual Anarchy
Elaine Showalter

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