July 25, 2003

Feminist Criticism: More Than One Voice

By RITA FELSKI

I have been reading a lot about myself lately, and most of what I read is not very flattering. Although I'm a lapsed Catholic, I've seen myself described as a "remorseless Puritan" or even, in one gloriously overwrought phrase, as a "destroying angel." When I'm not ushering in the apocalypse, I am being cast as a hatchet-faced harridan and paid-up member of the thought police. I am told that I indoctrinate my students, ruthlessly crush any expression of dissent, and execrate anything written

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