Mother-Haters and Other Rebels
Barbara Taylor: Heroine Chic, 3 January 2002
Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage
by Elaine Showalter.
Picador, 384 pp., £16.99, June 2001,0 330 34669 5 Show More
by Elaine Showalter.
Picador, 384 pp., £16.99, June 2001,
“... in a ‘Cossack minidress’, she tried to bamboozle her way into Partisan Review by imitating Susan Sontag); and, eventually, in the feminist academy (where her Princeton colleague Ann Douglas – ‘a rebel, a genius, a flash of light’ in a ‘green Diane Von Furstenberg wrap-dress’ – became an idol). Heroine-worship, in other words, is a real ... ”