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Elaine Showalter

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Gender Female
Age 83
Date of birth January 21,1941
Zodiac sign Aquarius
Born Boston
Massachusetts
United States
Spouse English Showalter
Edited worksThe New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature, and Theory
Daughters of Decade...
The Vintage Book of...
Speaking of Gender
The New Feminist Criticism...
Children Michael Showalter
Victoria Showalter
Job Professor
Writer
Commentator
Book editor
Literary critic
Education University of California, Davis
Bryn Mawr College
Brandeis University
Known forGynocriticism
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID446406

A literature of their own
A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture
Sexual Anarchy
Inventing Herself
The Vintage Book of American Women Writers
Faculty towers
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography
Sister's choice
Speaking of Gender
Women's liberation and literature
Daughters of Decadence B Bc Only
Sexual Anarchy C?'Pack X 6
Lit. of Their Own 086068 2854
The Female Malady
Teaching literature
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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".

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