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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Rabinowitz, Paula. "Female Subjectivity in Women’s Revolutionary Novels of the 1930s," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1986.
This dissertation examines the ways gender undergirds the definitions and disruptions of a genre primarily concerned with charting class differences. By focusing on the eruptions of sexuality within the texts, my study develops a method for reading women’s political fiction. While providing needed “archaeological” work by recovering lost women writers of the American Left, it also produces an understanding of the problems of narrating women’s complex relationship to class, sexuality, gender and race through close readings of a number of novels, including Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl, Tillie Olsen’s Yonnondio, Tess Slesinger’s The Unpossessed and Josephine Herbst’s Rope of Gold.
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