Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts, and Contexts

Lee H. Dowling, Elizabeth A. Flynn, Patrocinio P. Schweikart

Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature · 1987 · 256 citations · 0 references

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An unprecedented encounter between feminist criticism, reading-research and reader-response criticism...I found 'Gender and Reading' a valuable book to read as a feminist critic. Valuable because it asserts our rights, as women, to read; to read as women. Valuable because it begins a dialogue among so many varieties of criticism and theory.--Susan Squier, 'Women's Review of Books.'