Considers the ways in which identity and location shape academic argument and academic life. "Getting Personal" explores the new territory of feminist cultural studies. Organized around a number of academic scenes which analyze feminist critical performance, Miller focuses on occasions, from the the conference and seminar to the professional colloquium, to produce an autobiographical perspective on the mini-drama of institutional politics. As a feminist critic, Miller describes the dilemmas of a responsible pedagogic practice: the contradictory demands of authority and complicity for a feminist teacher of literature. "Getting Personal" examines the rhetorical strategies of a feminism traversed by internal debates over its own self-representations and suggests a way forward. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in literary studies and women's studies.
- ISBN10 0415903238
- ISBN13 9780415903233
- Publish Date 16 January 1992 (first published 15 July 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 November 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 180
- Language English