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Selective guide to further reading and
contacts*

Our concern here is to provide a link with the section on developments in the
1970s (pages 235–68) by giving a guide to the main arguments and further
reading in each area we discussed: feminism; Marxist literary theory; popular
culture and reading. We also include relevant bibliographies. Finally, we include
a resources section in which journals, bookshops and organizations are listed.

Feminism and literary criticism

Barrett, M. (ed.), Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing (The Women’s Press 1979). A
useful collection of Woolf’s writing on women and fiction, with an introduction
situating her work.
Batsleer, J., et al., ‘Women, literature and feminism’ (CCCS Stencilled Paper,
forthcoming). Examines women’s fictional writing in the thirties and relates it to an
analysis of women’s position and women’s politics at the time.
Elbert, S., and Glastonbury, M., Inspiration and Drudgery (WRRC 1979). A
consideration of literature and domestic labour in the nineteenth century in England.
Ellmann, M., Thinking About Women (Virago 1979). A reprint of a work first published in
1969. Its subject is the representation of women in the critical and fictional writing
of men.
Harrison, Rachel, ‘Shirley: relations of reproduction and the ideology of romance’, in
Women’s Studies Group, Women Take Issue (CCCS/Hutchinson 1978).
Marxist-Feminist Literature Collective, ‘Women’s writing 1848: Jane Eyre, Shirley,
Villette, Aurora Leigh’, in F.Barker et al. (eds.), The Sociology of Literature: 1848
(The University of Essex Press 1978). Categories from Marxist and psychoanalytic
thought are used as a means of understanding class and gender determinations within
women’s writing.
Millett, K., Sexual Politics (New York: Doubleday 1969). One of the founding texts of
contemporary feminist criticism and feminist theory. It develops a theory of
patriarchy and examines its effects, as sexism, in some fictional male writing.
Moers, E., Literary Women (The Women’s Press 1978). A literary history of women’s
writing in America, England and France.
Mulvey, L., ‘Women and representation: a discussion’, in Wedge, no. 2 (1978). A
discussion of feminist film practice and theory, with particular reference to Riddles