New Statesman - <![CDATA[Elaine Showalter]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/elaine_showalter en <![CDATA[The first lady]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200311170042 http://www.newstatesman.com/200311170042 Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:00:00 GMT Elaine Showalter Madam Secretary: a memoir Madeleine Albright Macmillan, 562pp, £20 ISBN 140503369X

]]> <![CDATA[They think it's all over]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200208120019 http://www.newstatesman.com/200208120019 Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:00:00 GMT Elaine Showalter The tradition of lad-lit, from Kingsley to Martin Amis, reached fever pitch with the insecure, introspective anti-heroes of the 1990s. But has the genre come to an end, asks Elaine Showalter

]]> <![CDATA[Scratching the Bin Laden itch]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200207290008 http://www.newstatesman.com/200207290008 Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:00:00 GMT Elaine Showalter Observations on mass hysteria

]]> <![CDATA[I love drag]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200108060032 http://www.newstatesman.com/200108060032 Mon, 06 Aug 2001 12:00:00 GMT Elaine Showalter Sexually Speaking: collected sex writings Gore Vidal (edited by Donald Weise) Cleis Press, 280pp, £12.99 ISBN 1573441201

]]> <![CDATA[Building frocks]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200103190033 http://www.newstatesman.com/200103190033 Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:00:00 GMT Elaine Showalter The distinction between art and fashion has become blurred. Now architects are moving into the game. Elaine Showalter shops around for an explanation

]]> <![CDATA[Virgin suicide]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200010020045 http://www.newstatesman.com/200010020045 Mon, 02 Oct 2000 12:00:00 GMT Elaine Showalter The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood Bloomsbury, 521pp, £16.99 ISBN 0747549370

]]> <![CDATA[Novel of the week]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200006050052 http://www.newstatesman.com/200006050052 Mon, 05 Jun 2000 12:00:00 GMT Elaine Showalter In America Susan Sontag Cape, 387pp, £16.99 ISBN 022404091X

]]> <![CDATA[Stand by your man. Elaine Showalter on how Hillary Clinton has become a symbol of the professional woman's confused search for identity, at once reviled and praised for supporting her husband]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200002070052 http://www.newstatesman.com/200002070052 Mon, 07 Feb 2000 12:00:00 GMT Elaine Showalter Bill and Hillary Christopher Andersen Warner Books, 352pp £7.99 ISBN 0751530352

]]> <![CDATA[Bridging the gap]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199909270053 http://www.newstatesman.com/199909270053 Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:00:00 GMT Elaine Showalter Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution Lisa Jardine Little, Brown, 444pp, £25 ISBN 0316647527

]]> <![CDATA[In the company of wolves. In Italy the heroine of "Rumpelstiltskin" eats seven plates of pasta; in China Cinderella has an ugly sister called Pock Face. A new study explores the universal appeal of fairy stories]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199902260044 http://www.newstatesman.com/199902260044 Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:00:00 GMT Elaine Showalter The Classic Fairy Tales Maria Tatar (editor) Norton Critical Edition, 394pp, £6.95

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