Books by Susan Lurie

A twisty fairy tale romp with a Princess Bride tone about a girl who strikes out on a quest to find her rightful family, because the one she's been stuck with all these years is most definitely wrong.

Author Susan Lurie argues that during the 1980s much of the well-intentioned work of feminist theory still left patriarchal power unquestioned. Lurie cites three literary feminists--Ellen Glasgow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Elizabeth Bishop--tracing each author's strategies for revealing and challenging the ways that patriarchal gender ideology profits from contested female subjectivity.