id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2836 Elaine Showalter - Wikipedia .html text/html 3485 303 55 Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941)[1] is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. Best known in academic and popular cultural fields,[2] she has written and edited numerous books and articles focused on a variety of subjects, from feminist literary criticism to fashion, sometimes sparking widespread controversy, especially with her work on illnesses. Showalter's best known works are Towards a Feminist Poetics (1979), The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture (1830–1980) (1985), Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle (1990), Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media (1997), and Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage (2001). In her essay Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness (1981), Showalter says, "A cultural theory acknowledges that there are important differences between women as writers: class, race, nationality, and history are literary determinants as significant as gender. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2836.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2836.txt