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1. Women Writing and Writing about Women

   Edited by Mary Jacobus

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   This innovative collection of contemporary essays in feminist literary criticism provides a spectrum of approaches and positions, united by their common focus on writing by and about women. Spanning the novel, poetry, drama, film and criticism, the contributors emphasise some of the problems of...

   Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
2. First Things

   Reading the Maternal Imaginary

   By Mary Jacobus

   In First Things Mary Jacobus combines close readings with theoretical concerns in an examination of the many forms taken by the mythic or phantasmic mother in literary, psychoanalytic and artistic representations. She carefully explores the ways in which the maternal imaginary informs both...

   Published December 19th 1995 by Routledge
3. Body/Politics

   Women and the Discourses of Science

   Edited by Mary Jacobus, Evelyn Fox Keller, Sally Shuttleworth

   Body/Politics demonstrates how many of the controversies in modern science involve or invoke the feminine body as their battleground. This groundbreaking collection addresses such scientific issues as artificial fertilization, the "crisis" in childbirth management,and the medical invention of "...

   Published December 12th 1989 by Routledge