Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand

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This controversial anthology is part of the Penn State Press series, Re-Reading the Canon. It is a landmark collection that critically engages the writings of the controversial novelist-philosopher from feminist perspectives. Interdisciplinary feminist strategies of rereading Rand range from the lightness of camp to the darkness of de Sade, from post-androgyny to post-structuralism. What results is as provocative in its implications for Rand's system as it is for feminism.

Preface - Nancy Tuana, Series Editor, ix

Acknowledgments, xiii

Introduction - Mimi Reisel Gladstein and Chris Matthew Sciabarra, 1

PART ONE: LOOKING BACK

1 - Ayn Rand: The Reluctant Feminist - Barbara Branden, 25

2 - Ayn Rand and Feminism: An Unlikely Alliance - Mimi Reisel Gladstein, 47

3 - On Atlas Shrugged - Judith Wilt, 57

4 - Ayn Rand: A Traitor to Her Own Sex - Susan Brownmiller, 63

5 - Psyching Out Ayn Rand - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 67

6 - Reflections on Ayn Rand - Camille Paglia, 77

PART TWO: FEMINIST REREADINGS OF RAND'S FICTION

7 - Ayn Rand and Feminist Synthesis: Rereading We the Living - Valérie Loiret-Prunet, 83

8 - Skyscrapers, Supermodels, and Strange Attractors: Ayn Rand, Naomi Wolf, and the Third Wave Aesthos - Barry Vacker, 115

9 - Looking Through a Paradigm Darkly - Wendy McElroy, 157

10 - The Romances of Ayn Rand - Judith Wilt, 173

11 - Who is Dagny Taggart?: The Epic Hero/ine in Disguise - Karen Michalson, 199

PART THREE: TOWARD A RANDIAN FEMINISM?

12 - Was Ayn Rand a Feminist? - Nathaniel Branden, 223

13 - Ayn Rand and the Concept of Feminism: A Reclamation - Joan Kennedy Taylor, 231 [Features an interview with Objectivist philosopher, David Kelley.]

14 - Ayn Rand's Philosophy of Individualism: A Feminist Psychologist's Perspective - Sharon Presley, 251

15 - Ayn Rand: The Woman Who Would Not Be President - Susan Love Brown, 275

16 - Rereading Rand on Gender in the Light of Paglia - Robert Sheaffer, 299

17 - Sex and Gender Through an Egoist Lens: Masculinity and Femininity in the Philosophy of Ayn Rand - Diana Mertz Brickell [now Diana Mertz Hsieh], 319 [earlier version of this paper published here]

18 - The Female Hero: A Randian-Feminist Synthesis - Thomas Gramstad, 333

19 - Fluff and Granite: Rereading Rand's Camp Feminist Aesthetics - Melissa Jane Hardie, 363

Selected Bibliography, 391

Contributors, 397

Index, 403

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