Elaine Showalter AKA Elaine Cottler Born: 21-Jan-1941 Birthplace: Cambridge, MA
Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Critic Nationality: United States Executive summary: Lead alpha Gynocritic Professor of English at Princeton University. Located a copy of Lynne Cheney's extremely obscure but lesbian action-packed 1981 novel Sisters at a bookstall in Paris, bringing it to the attention of the feminist community.
Father: (d.) Mother: (homemaker, d.) Husband: English Showalter (one daughter, one son) Daughter: Vinca Showalter LaFleur Son: Michael Showalter (actor, b. 17-Jun-1970)
University: BA English, Bryn Mawr College (1962) University: MA, Brandeis University (1964) University: PhD, University of California at Davis (1970) Professor: Rutgers University Professor: Princeton University (1983-2003)
Hillary Clinton for President Guggenheim Fellowship 1977 Ukrainian Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Author of books:
A Literature of Their Own (1977, criticism) The Female Malady (1985, nonfiction) Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle (1990, nonfiction) Sister's Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing (1991, criticism)
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