Starting Over: Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique

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Starting Over Critical Pers:Qectives on Women and Gender Critical Perspectives on Women and Gender brings books on timely issues and controversies to an interdisciplinary audience. The series explores gender -related topics and illuminates the issues involved in current debates in feminist scholarship and across the disciplines. Series Editorial Board Ruth Behar Miige G6~ek Anne Herrmann Patricia Simons Domna Stanton Abigail Stewart Christina Brooks Whitman Titles in the series Michelle Fine Disruptive Voices: The Possibilities ofFeminist Research Susan D. Clayton and Faye J. Crosby Justice, Gender, and Affirmative Action Janice Doane and Devon Hodges From Klein to Kristeva: Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Search for the "Good Enough" Mother Jill Dolan Presence and Desire: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, Performance Judith Newton Starting Over: Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique Starting Over Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique Judith Newton Ann Arbor 'THE ll:N:IvERSITY OF MIcmGAN PREss Copyright © by the University of Michigan 1994 All rights reserved Published in the United States of America by The University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America§ Printed on acid-free paper 1997 1996 1995 1994 4 3 2 1 A elP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Newton, Judith Lowder. Starting over: feminism and the politics of cultural critique / Judith Newton. p. cm.-(Critical perspectives on women and gender) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-472-09482-3 (all<. paper).-ISBN 0-472-06482-7 (pbk. : all<. paper) 1. Feminist literary criticism. 2. Criticism. 3. Feminism and literature. I. Title. II. Series. PN98.W64N49 1994 801'·95'082-dc20 94-10225 CIP Methuen & Co. for excerpts from Feminist Criticism and Social Change, edited by Judith Newton and Deborah Rosenfelt, © 1986. Routledge for excerpts from Rewriting the Victorians, edited by Linda Shires, © 1992. "History as Usual" originally appeared in a slightly different form in Cultural Critique #9, © 1988 Oxford University Press, Cultural Critique. Used with permission. "Learning Not to Curse" Originally appeared in a slightly different form in Cultural Critique #25, © 1993 Oxford University Press, Cultural Critique. Used with permission. "Historicisms New and Old: 'Charles Dickens' Meets Marxism, Feminism, and West Coast Foucault " was Originally published in FEMINIST STUDIES, volume 16, number 3 (Fall 1990): 449-70, and is reprinted here, in a revised version, by permission of the publisher, Feminist Studies, Inc., do Women's Studies Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. ISBN-13 978-0-472-09482-0 (cloth) ISBN-13 978-0-472-06482-3 (paper) ISBN-13 978-0-472-02938-9 (electronic) To my families ...