Feminist Engagements

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Feminist Engagements is written by S. Fishkin and published by Palgrave Macmillan. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0230615945 (ISBN 10) and 9780230615946 (ISBN 13).

This book offers historically-grounded, feminist interventions into American literary history by one of the country's leading scholars in American Studies. Integrating criticism, biography, social history, popular culture, and personal narrative Fishkin explores the poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century. These charismatic, readable essays range from explorations of feminist humor and chutzpah, to meditations on the personal and the political, to examinations of feminists' challenges to cultural paradigms. Fishkin s lively voice engages readers with the American past and leaves a bold stamp on the literary landscape.