| Elaine Showalter  AKA Elaine Cottler
Born: 21-Jan-1941
Birthplace: Cambridge, MA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Critic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Lead alpha Gynocritic Professor of English at Princeton University. Located a copy of Lynne Cheney's extremely obscure but lesbian action-packed 1981 novel Sisters at a bookstall in Paris, bringing it to the attention of the feminist community.
Father: (d.)
Mother: (homemaker, d.)
Husband: English Showalter (one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Vinca Showalter LaFleur
Son: Michael Showalter (actor, b. 17-Jun-1970)
University: BA English, Bryn Mawr College (1962)
University: MA, Brandeis University (1964)
University: PhD, University of California at Davis (1970)
Professor: Rutgers University
Professor: Princeton University (1983-2003)
Hillary Clinton for President
Guggenheim Fellowship 1977
Ukrainian Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Author of books:
A Literature of Their Own (1977, criticism)
The Female Malady (1985, nonfiction)
Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle (1990, nonfiction)
Sister's Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing (1991, criticism)
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