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Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination
Maybe someday
30
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
43/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
August 17, 2021
A history of the contemporary women's movement told through the lives and works of the literary women who shaped it.
What The Reviewers Say
While it provides an engaging tour of female voices, the new book feels flabbier, shallower, more diffuse. Some of its inquiries seem unrelated to feminism or anger, such as an interesting rumination on Adrienne Rich’s relation to her Judaism, and others seem overly familiar.
... these prolific and versatile women writers return to the field with incisive and redefining inquiries into the lives and work of diverse North American literary women who faced 'dizzying contradictions' and seemingly insurmountable opposition to propel feminism through the advances and backlashes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
... thoroughly researched.
... illuminating.
