Poetry for Students

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Originally published in 1947, this classic book is the

account of a young Jewish girl living in hiding from

the Nazis in Amsterdam. Frank and her family were

later discovered and sent to concentration camps.

Frank died at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in 1945.

Fuss, Diana, Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature & Dif-

ference, Routledge, 1989.

Fuss analyzes essentialism in this groundbreaking

study, taking apart its assumptions one by one.

Gamble, Sarah, ed., The Routledge Companion to Femi-

nism and Postfeminism, Routledge, 2001.

In this text, Garber offers more than a dozen chap-

ters and more than 400 A-Z dictionary entries on top-

ics such as the history of feminism, postfeminism,

men in feminism, feminism and new technologies,

and feminism and philosophy.

Garber, Linda, Identity Poetics, Columbia University Press,

2001.

Garber, an associate professor in the department of

English and the Program for the Study of Women

and Gender at Santa Clara University, calls for recog-

nition of the role of lesbian poets as theorists of les-

bian identity and activism.

Riley, Denise, Am I That Name?: Feminism and the Cate-

gory of “Women” in History, University of Minnesota Press,

1989.

Riley explores how the socially constructed category

of women has shifted through history.

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