Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand

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Mimi Riesel Gladstein, Chris M. Sciabarra
Penn State Press, 5. jun. 2007 - 480 strani

This landmark anthology is the first to engage critically the writings of Ayn Rand from feminist perspectives. The interdisciplinary feminist strategies of re-reading Rand range from the lightness of camp to the darkness of de Sade, from postandrogyny to poststructuralism. A highly charged dialogue on Rand's legacy provides the forum for a reexamination of feminism and its relationship to egoism, individualism, and capitalism. Rand's place in contemporary feminism is assessed through comparisons with other twentieth-century feminists, such as de Beauvoir, Wolf, Paglia, Eisler, and Gilligan. What results is as provocative in its implications for Rand's system as it is for feminism.

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Introduction
1
Rereading Rands Camp Feminist
19
The Reluctant Feminist
25
An Unlikely Alliance
47
On Atlas Shrugged
57
A Traitor to Her Own Sex
63
Reflections on Ayn Rand
77
Rereading We the Living
83
A Reclamation
231
A Feminist
251
The Woman Who Would Not Be President
275
Rereading Rand on Gender in the Light of Paglia
299
Masculinity
319
A RandianFeminist Synthesis
333
Aesthetics
363
Selected Bibliography
391

Looking Through a Paradigm Darkly
157
The Romances of Ayn Rand
173
Who Is Dagny Taggart? The Epic Heroine in Disguise
199
Was Ayn Rand a Feminist?
223
Contributors
397
Index
403
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Mimi Reisel Gladstein is Associate Dean of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas, El Paso. She is the author of The Ayn Rand Companion (1984; forthcoming revised edition, 1999) and The Indestructible Woman in Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck (1986).

Chris Matthew Sciabarra is Visiting Scholar in the Department of Politics at NYU and is the author of Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical (1995) and Marx, Hayek, and Utopia (1995).

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