Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand

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 Beauvoir, Wolf, Paglia, Eisler, and Gilligan. What results is as provocative in its implications for Rand's system as it is for feminism.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Assisted by: Mimi Riesel Gladstein (Editor), Mimi Riesel (Univ. of Texas) Gladstein (Editor), Chris Matthew Sciabarra (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.1999
• EAN: 9780271030227
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03022-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 594 g
• Series: Re-Reading the Canon
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Feminism & feminist theory, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Feminism and feminist theory, History of Western philosophy, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form