Elaine Showalter
American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1941 · age 85
Elaine Showalter is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She influenced feminist literary criticism in the United States academia, developing the concept and practice of gynocritics, a term describing the study of "women as writers".
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