Patricia Meyer Spacks
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(b. 1929)
| 1975 | The Female Imagination. One of the seminal texts in feminist criticism is this interpretive study of patterns revealed by women writers from the seventeenth century to the present. Spacks, born in San Francisco and educated at Rollins College, Yale, and the University of California, is a professor of English at Wellesley College. |
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"The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality."
"The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies."
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