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Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand
. Ed(S): Gladstein, Mimi R.; Sciabarra, Chris Matthew
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paperback. Editor(s): Gladstein, Mimi R.; Sciabarra, Chris Matthew. Series: Re-Reading the Canon. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 585.
This landmark anthology is the first to engage critically the writings of Ayn Rand from feminist perspectives. The interdisciplinary feminist strategies of re-reading Rand range from the lightness of camp to the darkness of de Sade, from postandrogyny to poststructuralism. A highly charged dialogue on Rand's legacy provides the forum for a reexamination of feminism and its relationship to egoism, individualism, and capitalism. Rand's place in contemporary feminism is assessed through comparisons with other twentieth-century feminists, such as de Beauvoir, Wolf, Paglia, Eisler, and Gilligan. What results is as provocative in its implications for Rand's system as it is for ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Penn State University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Series
Re-Reading the Canon
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271018317
SKU
V9780271018317
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About . Ed(S): Gladstein, Mimi R.; Sciabarra, Chris Matthew
Mimi Reisel Gladstein is Associate Dean of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas, El Paso. She is the author of The Ayn Rand Companion (1984; forthcoming revised edition, 1999) and The Indestructible Woman in Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck (1986). Chris Matthew Sciabarra is Visiting Scholar in the Department of Politics at NYU and is the author of ... Read more
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“Too often, Rand is either revered as a prophet or dismissed as a crank. Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand approaches her as a writer and thinker of profound insights and equally profound contradictions, who offered an important and inspiring but flawed and limited vision of life. . . . Such a serious approach can ultimately end Rand’s intellectual marginalization. This ... Read more