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Showalter, Elaine was born on January 21, 1941 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Paul and Violet Cottler.
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An exploration of the paralells between the ends of the 19th and 20th centuries and their representations in art, literature and film, this book asks whether the approaching millenium signals a beginning or points grimly to an end, and whether the ends of centuries are merely imaginery borderlines in time, or cycles, such as the crises of the "fin de siecle" and the sense of ending so ominously present in the works of contemporary writers and artists. The novelist George Gissing remarked that the 1880s and 1890s were decades of sexual anarchy, when the notions of gender that governed sexual identity and behaviour were being constantly eroded. It was a time when the words "feminism" and "homosexuality" came into use, redefining accepted ideas of masculine and feminine, and a time when the "emancipated woman" was viewed as a threat to family stability. That was nearly 100 years ago, and in this book the author points out the similarity between that time and this time. The sexual abuse of children and the increasing frequency of rape; the censoring of art and the banning of pornography; anti-abortion campaigns and the AIDs epidemic - these late-20th-century crises are, the author suggests, comparable to their "fin de siecle" counterparts. Elaine Showalter is also the author of "A Literature of Their Own: Women Writers from Bronte to Lessing" and "The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830 - 1980".
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With sources as diverse as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Scream 2, Inventing Herself is an expansive and timely exploration of three centuries of feminist intellectuals, each of whom possesses a boundless determination to alter the world by boldly experiencing love, achievement, and fame on a grand scale. Focusing on paradigmatic figures ranging from Mary Wollstonecraft and Margaret Fuller to Germaine Greer and Susan Sontag, preeminent scholar Elaine Showalter uncovers common themes and patterns of women's lives across the centuries and discovers the feminist intellectual tradition they embodied. The author brilliantly illuminates the contributions of Eleanor Marx, Zora Neale Hurston, Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Mead, and many more. Showalter, a highly regarded critic known for her provocative and strongly held opinions, has here established a compelling new Who's Who of women's thought. Certain to spark controversy, the omission of such feminist perennials as Gloria Steinem, Susan B. Anthony, Robin Morgan, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Virginia Woolf will surprise and shock the conventional wisdom.
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In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, Elaine Showalter demonstrates how cultural ideas about 'proper' feminine behaviour have shaped the definition and treatment of female insanity for 150 years, and given mental disorder in women specifically sexual connotations. Along with vivid portraits of the men who dominated psychiatry, and descriptions of the therapeutic practices that were used to bring women 'to their senses', she draws on diaries and narratives by inmates, and fiction from Mary Wollstonecraft to Doris Lessing, to supply a cultural perspective usually missing from studies of mental illness. Highly original and beautifully written, The Female Malady is a vital counter-interpretation of madness in women, showing how it is a consequence of, rather than a deviation from, the traditional female role.
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Hysteria has traditionally been seen as a female disorder but in this study of its cultural implications, the author argues that it is a universal illness and that far from dying out with the end of the Victorian sexual repression it is becoming more widespread and manifest. Showalter identifies Gulf War syndrome, recovered memory, chronic fatigue syndrome, even claims of ritual satanic abuse, as the contemporary forms of the illness and by recognizing its universality releases women from the limiting association with hysteria.
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Showalter, Elaine was born on January 21, 1941 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Paul and Violet Cottler.
Bachelor, Bryn Mawr College, 1962; Master of Arts, Brandeis U., 1964; Doctor of Philosophy in English, University of California, Davis, 1970.
Teaching assistant English, University of California, 1964-1966;
from instructor to associate professor, University of California, 1967-1978;
Professor of English, Rutgers University, from 1978;
Professor of English, Avalon Foundation professor humanities, Princeton (New Jersey) U., since 1984;
Avalon Foundation professor humanities, Princeton (New Jersey) U., since 1987. Visiting Professor of English and women's studies U. Delaware, 1976-1977. Visiting professor School Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College, 1986.
Professor Salzburg (Austria) Seminars, 1988. Clarendon lecturer Oxford (England) University, 1989. Visiting scholar Phi Beta Kappa, 1993-1994.
Numerous radio and television appearances.
(An exploration of the paralells between the ends of the 1...)
( With sources as diverse as A Vindication of the Rights ...)
(In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, El...)
(Hysteria has traditionally been seen as a female disorder...)
(Hystories : Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media by Elai...)
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Member Modern Language Association (vice president 1996-1997, president 1998).
Married English Showalter, June 8, 1963. Children: Vinca, Michael.