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23. Ibid., pp. 261–2, 266.
24. Ibid., p. 266.
25. J.Donovan, Afterword: critical re-vision, in Feminist literary criticism: explorations
in theory, ed. J.Donovan (Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1975), p. 77.
26. T.Moi, Sexual/textual politics (London, Methuen, 1985), p. 4.
27. Showalter, A literature of their own, pp. 295–6.
28. Marxist-feminist Literature Collective, Women’s writing: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette,
Aurora Leigh, in 1848: the sociology of literature, eds. F.Barker et al. (Colchester,
University of Essex, 1978), p. 185.
29. Ibid., p. 186.
30. Showalter, Feminist criticism in the wilderness, p. 245.
31. Barrett, Women’s oppression today, p. 124.
32. Ibid., pp. 98–9.
33. Ibid., pp. 108–12.
34. C.Kaplan, Pandora’s box: subjectivity, class and sexuality in socialist feminist
criticism, in Making a difference: feminist literary criticism, eds. G.Greene &
C.Kahn (London, Methuen, 1985), p. 149.
35. Ibid.
36. R.Coward, Are women’s novels feminist novels?, in The new feminist criticism,
ed. Showalter, p. 234. cf. M.French, The women’s room (London, Sphere Books,
1978).
37. Ibid., p. 228.
38. Ibid., p. 238n. cf. R.Coward & E.Ellis, Language and materialism (London,
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977), ch. 3 and 4.
39. L.Mulvey, Visual pleasure and narrative cinema, in Popular television and film,
eds. T. Bennett et al. (London, British Film Institute, 1981), p. 209.
40. J.Williamson, Decoding advertisements: ideology and meaning in advertising
(London, Marion Boyars, 1978); Women’s Studies Group, Women take issue:
aspects of women’s subordination (London, Hutchinson/Centre for Contemporary
Cultural Studies, 1978).
41. Showalter, Feminist criticism in the wilderness, p. 249.
42. Ibid., p. 250.
43. Influential might be a better term than persuasive. For there certainly are very
persuasive anglophone instances of the latter two. cf. D.Spender, Man made
language (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980); M.Daly, Gyn/ecology: the
metaethics of radical feminism (Boston, Beacon Press, 1978); J.Mitchell,
Psychoanalysis and feminism (London, Penguin, 1974). These are, however,
much less representative of anglophone feminist discourse than are Kristeva,
Cixous and Irigaray of French.
44. Millett, Sexual politics, pp. 28–31.
45. H.Cixous and C.Clément, The newly born woman, tr. B.Wing (Minneapolis,
University of Minnesota Press, 1986), p. 65.
46. Ibid., p. 81.
47. Ibid., p. 82.
48. H.Cixous, The laugh of the Medusa, tr. K.Cohen & P.Cohen, in New French
feminisms, eds. Marks & de Courtivron, pp. 256–7.
49. L.Irigaray, This sex which is not one, tr. C.Porter with C.Burke (Ithaca, Cornell
University Press, 1985), p. 28.
50. Ibid., p. 29.
51. Showalter, Feminist criticism in the wilderness, p. 252.
52. J.Mitchell, Women: the longest revolution. Essays in feminism, literature and
psychoanalysis (London, Virago, 1984), p. 291.

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