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54. cf. Moi, T. (ed.), (1986), The Kristeva reader (Oxford: Basil Blackwell).
55. E.P.Thompson, The poverty of theory and other essays (London, Merlin Press,
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56. J.Kristeva, Revolution in poetic language, tr. M.Waller (New York, Columbia
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57. Ibid., pp. 82–5.
58. Cixous and Clément, The newly born woman, p. 84.
59. Cixous, Laugh of the Medusa, p. 250.
60. Showalter, Feminist criticism in the wilderness, p. 255.
61. Mitchell, Women: the longest revolution, p. 292.
62. J.Wolff, Feminine sentences: essays on women and culture (Cambridge, Polity
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63. G.Pollock, Vision and difference: femininity, feminism and histories of art (London,
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64. Mitchell, Women: The longest revolution, p. 291.
65. Ibid., p. 294.
66. Showalter, A criticism of our own, p. 369. To be fair, we should note that the
“Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness” essay was first published as early as 1981,
that is, well before the New Right backlash gathered its full momentum. But
Showalter chose to republish it unamended as late as 1985 in a book she herself
edited.
67. Showalter, A criticism of our own, p. 359.
68. G.C.Spivak, In other worlds: essays in cultural politics (London, Methuen, 1987);
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69. M.Barrett, Women’s oppression today: the Marxist/feminist encounter (London,
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70. C.Weedon, Feminist practice and post-structuralist theory (Oxford, Basil Blackwell,
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71. Editorial, Feminist Review, 23, 1986, p. 4.
72. M.Barrett, Feminism’s turn to culture, Woman: A Cultural Review, 1, 1990.
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75. Ibid., p. 204.
76. E.Grosz, Sexual subversions: three french feminists (Sydney, Allen & Unwin,
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77. Showalter, A criticism of our own, p. 369.
78. M.Barrett, Words and things: materialism and method in contemporary feminist
analysis, in Destabilizing theory: contemporary feminist debates, eds. M.Barrett
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79. Y.Tasker, Having it all: feminism and the pleasures of the popular, in Off centre:
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80. Ibid.
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