Literature and Gender, Paperback by Goodman, Lizbeth (EDT), ISBN 0415135745, ISBN-13 9780415135740, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US A combination anthology, introduction, and critical reader approaching literature from a gender focus. The text works hard by covering prose, poetry, drama, and also feminist scholarship which touches on the seminal themes of voice and voicelessness, the conflicts women writers feel between “femininity” and creativity, the gendering of language, and the widening spheres of influence in literature written about woman and by them. The featured excerpts include works by Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, and Toni Morrison. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.