A History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry

Table of Contents

1. Critical mapping I: the category of 'woman poet': an introduction, by way of mapping Linda Kinnahan
2. Critical mapping II: reading American poetry by women Rachel Blau DuPlessis
3. Chronology I: American women poets, 1900–50 Cristanne Miller
4. Chronology II: American women poets, 1950–2000 Jeanne Heuving
5. Native American women poets Jennifer Andrews
6. Asian American women poets Juliana Chang
7. Chicana/Latina women poets Cordelia Chávez Candelaria
8. African American women poets Emily R. Rutter
9. Jewish American women poets Kathryn Hellerstein
10. The world split open: feminism, poetry, and social critique Nancy Berke
11. Little magazines and the gendered, racialized discourse of women's poetry Suzanne W. Churchill
12. The WP network: anthologies and affiliations in contemporary American women's poetry Marsha Bryant
13. High, low, and somewhere in-between: women's poetry and popular culture in modern America Michael Chasar
14. 'At the edge of what we know': gender and environment in American poetry Margaret Ronda
15. Token women, male movements, and literary history's feminist shadow Elizabeth Savage
16. Lineages and legacies: real and imagined Deborah M. Mix
17. Crossing geographies, crossing languages Ann Vickery
18. Women's 'spiritualities' Romana Huk
19. Forgiving the sonnet: modernist women's love poetry and the problem of sentimentality Melissa Girard
20. The 'do it yourself' avant-garde: American women poets and experiment Susan Rosenbaum
21. Visual poetics Elisabeth A. Frost
22. Poetry and technology Alex Goody
23. Post-millennial women's poetry Lisa Sewell.

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