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the story critique? What does the story suggest about the intersection of patriarchy, religion, and socioeconomic class? 5. In what ways might we say that William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” (1931) plays with traditional gender categories, revealing the biases and limitations of traditional definitions of gender? For further reading Backlund, Philip M., and Mary Rose Williams, eds. Readings in Gender Communication. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 2004. Bobo, Jacqueline, ed. Black Feminist Cultural Criticism. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001. Frye, Marilyn. Willful Virgin: Essays in Feminism. Freedom, Calif.: Crossing, 1992. Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought [1831–1993]. New York: New Press, 1995. hooks, bell. Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Boston: South End Press, 1981. Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres, eds. Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. Moi, Toril. Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory. 2nd ed. New York: Rout‑ ledge, 2000. Moraga, Cherríe, and Gloria Anzaldúa. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. 2nd ed. New York: Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1983. Oliver, Kelly, ed. The French Feminism Reader. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. London: Hogarth, 1929. Zinn, Maxine Baca, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, and Michael A. Messner, eds. Through the Prism of Difference: Readings on Sex and Gender. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1997.
For advanced readers Allen, Paula Gunn. The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986. Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. 1949. Trans. H. M. Parshley. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1972. Boone, Joseph A., and Michael Cadden, eds. Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism. New York: Routledge, 1991. Cixous, Hélène. “Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays.” Rpt. in The Feminist Reader. 2nd ed. Ed. Catherine Belsey and Jane Moore. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1997. 91–103. Irigaray, Luce. This Sex Which Is Not One. 1977. Trans. Catherine Porter with Carolyn Burke. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985.
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