Feminisms is the first fully comprehensive anthology of feminist literary criticism and theory, including 58 essays by 53 well-known critics. Classic and representative essays from the mid-seventies to 1990 are included, covering a spectrum of views from Marxist, deconstructionist, New Historicist, psychoanalytic, structuralist and other approaches to literature and film. The thirteen sections arrange the essays thematically, focusing on issues central to feminist literary theory.