File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1998/phillitcrit.9802, message 82


From: Patsloane-AT-aol.com
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 22:43:11 EST
Subject: Re: PLC: lit-girls


>  I received a "literature" book catalogue the other
>  day 
>   Predominantely, female
>  authors wrote about "female" subjects.  These were biographies about women
>  or critiques of other women's work.  There were a few biographies of male
>  writers by women.  When the subject of a text was theoretical rather than
>  biographical, the female authors also tended toward the "female" subjects
>  -- home, love, that sort of thing -- including psychoanalytic
>  treatments...things like Shoshanna Feldman and Cixous, et al

Deaun,

This might be just the particular catalogue you had, as I've not found the
phenomenon you describe to be general.  Which publisher's catalogue was it?

pat


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