'on the subject of the feminist business'

«On the subject of the feminist business»: Re-Reading Flannery O'Connor is a groundbreaking collection of critical essays that responds to mainstream feminist theory in approaching O'Connor's fiction. These innovative readings provide a fresh reappraisal of O'Connor's work, revealing how she defies the patriarchal Southern culture in which she lived with brilliantly subversive depictions of the women who inhabited her world.

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The Author: Teresa Caruso earned her Ph.D. in Literature and Criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with her work on Flannery O Connor and the feminine grotesque. Her scholarly activities continue to focus on feminist re-evaluations of O Connor s fiction. She currently teaches literature and composition at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, in Erie, Pennsylvania.

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Contents: Teresa Caruso: Introduction: «On the subject of the feminist business» - Robert Donahoo: O'Connor and The Feminine Mystique: «The Limitations That Reality Imposed» - Virginia Wray: Flannery O'Connor's Struggle with Patriarchal Culture - Margaret D. Bauer: The Betrayal of Ruby Hill and Hulga Hopewell: Recognizing Feminist Concerns in «A Stroke of Good Fortune» and «Good Country People» - Marshall Bruce Gentry: How Sacred Is the Violence in «A View of the Woods»? - Dawn Keetley: «I forgot what I done»: Repressed Anger and Violent Fantasy in «A Good Man Is Hard to Find» - Natalie Wilson: Misfit Bodies and Errant Gender: The Corporeal Feminism of Flannery O'Connor - Christine Atkins: Educating Hulga: Re-Writing Seduction in «Good Country People» - Avis Hewitt: «Ignoring Unmistakable Likeness»: Mark Fortune's Miss-Fortune in «A View of the Woods» - J. June Schade: Survival in a Patriarchal World.