Literary Theory and Criticism

Simone de Beauvoir and the second wave 319 The essentialism debate 322 Literary feminisms 325 New French feminisms: Kristeva, Cixous, Irigaray 332 Overview: from The Second Sex to Gender Trouble 337 Further reading 338 24 Postcolonialism Elleke Boehmer 340 The 'post' in postcolonial 340 Related political traditions 342

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