Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

A brilliant, sweeping history of the contemporary women’s movement told through the lives and works of the literary women who shaped it.

Forty years after their first groundbreaking work of feminist literary theory, The Madwoman in the Attic, award-winning collaborators Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar map the literary history of feminism’s second wave.

From its stirrings in the midcentury—when Sylvia Plath, Betty Friedan, and Joan Didion found their voices and Diane di Prima, Lorraine Hansb...