{"title":"The Historical Context of Judith Fetterley’s The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction 1968–1978","authors":"W. Martin","doi":"10.5325/reception.13.1.0010","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This essay provides historical context for the second wave of U.S. feminism, focusing on the decade before Judith Fetterley’s The Resisting Reader was published. It demonstrates the ways in which Fetterley’s book is shaped by and crystallized the development of feminist politics and scholarship during the decade.","PeriodicalId":40584,"journal":{"name":"Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5325/reception.13.1.0010","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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abstract:This essay provides historical context for the second wave of U.S. feminism, focusing on the decade before Judith Fetterley’s The Resisting Reader was published. It demonstrates the ways in which Fetterley’s book is shaped by and crystallized the development of feminist politics and scholarship during the decade.
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Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published once a year. It seeks to promote dialog and discussion among scholars engaged in theoretical and practical analyses in several related fields: reader-response criticism and pedagogy, reception study, history of reading and the book, audience and communication studies, institutional studies and histories, as well as interpretive strategies related to feminism, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and postcolonial studies, focusing mainly but not exclusively on the literature, culture, and media of England and the United States.