Pen Men
Elaine Showalter, 20 March 1986
Men and Feminism in Modern Literature
by Declan Kiberd.
Macmillan, 250 pp., £13.95, September 1985,0 333 38353 2 Show More
by Declan Kiberd.
Macmillan, 250 pp., £13.95, September 1985,
Women Writing about Men
by Jane Miller.
Virago, 256 pp., £10.95, January 1986,0 86068 473 3 Show More
by Jane Miller.
Virago, 256 pp., £10.95, January 1986,
Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and 20th-century Literature
by Peter Schwenger.
Routledge, 172 pp., £29.50, September 1985,0 7102 0164 8 Show More
by Peter Schwenger.
Routledge, 172 pp., £29.50, September 1985,
“... of such writers as Richardson, Rebecca West, Alexandra Kollontai, Christina Stead, Jean Rhys, Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, Miller’s deliberately unsystematic readings have an impressive cumulative power. By the end of the book, as she discusses the work of black and working-class writers, women who have been so excluded from the ... ”