The Empire Strikes Back

Authors

Gayle Greene, Scripps CollegeFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Department

English (Scripps)

Publication Date

2-10-1992

Disciplines

English Language and Literature | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Gender and Sexuality | Politics and Social Change | Women's Studies

Abstract

Those who are living through change may be the last to know it, until something we read brings things together in a way that makes us see that yes, things really are different-it’s not just us growing older. These books-both written by young women, both bristling with indlgnation-demonstrate that something has changed profoundly in the culture’s attitudes toward and representatlons of women, that we are undergoing a “cultural onslaught” that is the more “remarkable for how little it has been remarked upon at all.”

Rights Information

© 1992 The Nation

Recommended Citation

Greene, Gayle. "The Empire Strikes Back." Nation, vol. 254, no. 5, 10 Feb. 1992, pp. 166-170.