<div dir="ltr">This is a bit off topic, but I'm stymied. Can anyone help me find a good, basic, up to date introduction to Feminist/Gender Theories that is substantial and inviting? I haven't had much luck with chapters in Intro to Theory books--Feminist Theory seems to often get a once-over-lightly & I'd like something that covers both.<div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance, leslie</div><div>I appreciate any and all help. You can reply off line to my <a href="mailto:lhankins@cornellcollege.edu">lhankins@cornellcollege.edu</a> address.<br><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#9900ff" face="garamond, serif">Leslie Kathleen Hankins</font><div><font color="#9900ff" face="garamond, serif">Professor</font></div><div><font color="#9900ff" face="garamond, serif">Department of English & Creative Writing</font></div><div><font color="#9900ff" face="garamond, serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#9900ff" face="garamond, serif" size="2"><i>"Moreover, however interesting facts may be, they are an inferior form of fiction, & gradually we become impatient of their weakness & diffuseness, of their compromises & evasions, of the slovenly sentences which they make for themselves, and are eager to revive ourselves with the greater intensity & truth of fiction." </i> </font></div><div><font color="#9900ff" face="garamond, serif"> Virginia Woolf, "How Should One Read a Book?"</font></div></div></div>
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