Elaine Showalter

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born

January 21, 1941

place of birth

The United States

about this author

Elaine Showalter (born 21 January 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She is one of the founders of feminist literary criticism in United States academia, developing the concept and practice of gynocritics.

She is well known and respected in both academic and popular cultural fields. She has written and edited numerous books and articles focussed on a variety of subjects, from feminist literary criticism to fashion, sometimes sparking widespread controversy, especially with her work on illnesses. Showalter has been a television critic for People magazine and a commentator on BBC radio and television.

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books by Elaine Showalter

avg rating: 3.92 | 506 ratings | 80 reviews | 26 distinct works | 1 fan

	A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter avg rating 4.08 — 52 ratings — published 2009 4 editions	my rating:
	A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing by Elaine Showalter avg rating 3.92 — 26 ratings — published 1977 7 editions	my rating:
	Hystories by Elaine Showalter avg rating 3.65 — 23 ratings — published 1997 4 editions	my rating:
	The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. by Elaine Showalter avg rating 4.10 — 20 ratings — published 1985 3 editions	my rating:
	Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle by Elaine Showalter avg rating 3.84 — 19 ratings — published 1990 3 editions	my rating:
	Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin De Siecle by Elaine Showalter avg rating 3.63 — 19 ratings — published 1993 2 editions	my rating:
	Teaching Literature by Elaine Showalter avg rating 3.40 — 20 ratings — published 2002	my rating:
	Scribbling Women: Short Stories by 19th Century American Women by Elaine Showalter avg rating 4.38 — 8 ratings — published 1997 5 editions	my rating:
	New Feminist Criticism by Elaine Showalter avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published 1985 3 editions	my rating:
	Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage by Elaine Showalter avg rating 3.17 — 6 ratings — published 2001 5 editions	my rating: