Published in 1985
253 pages
Rachel Blau DuPlessis is an American poet and essayist, known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modernist and contemporary poetry. Her work has been widely anthologized.
What is this book about?
Rachel Blau DuPlessis undertakes an interpretation of twentieth-century women writers in terms of their attempts to delegitimize the cultural conventions established by a sex-gender system and its values.
This academic study explores the ways in which women writers constructed narratives beyond the masculinist romance and quest tropes into areas of travels and adventure, professional ambition, lesbian love, adulterous passion, and unconventional parenting.
