Diane Michelle Elam (born April 17, 1958) is an American

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

writer, the author of ''Feminism and Deconstruction: Ms. en Abyme'' (1994), ''Romancing the Postmodern'' (1992), and co-editor (with Robyn Wiegman) of ''Feminism Beside Itself'' (1995). A recurrent theme in her work is an argument against the possibility of a complete and definitive representation of women.Gorton, Kristyn
Diane Elam's Work
1999. Retrieved June 27, 2007.

Life

Elam was born on April 17, 1958, in

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. She is the daughter of father, Douglas Bradley, and mother, Leslie J. (Parman) Elam. Elam attended to

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in 1980, graduated from

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with a Master of Arts in 1984, and received her Doctor of Philosophy from Brown as well in 1988. Elam was also professor of English literature and critical and cultural theory at

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, at

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in Bloomington in the 1990s, and at

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in Pennsylvania. Before his death in an airplane crash in 1994, she was married to fellow academic Bill Readings, a professor of Comparative Literature at the

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Works

*Diane Elam; Robyn Wiegman, ''Feminism beside itself'' New York; London : Routledge, 1995. * ''Romancing the postmodern'', London; New York : Routledge, 1992. * ''Feminism and deconstruction : Ms. en abyme'', London; New York : Routledge, 1994.

References

External links

*Gorton, Kristyn
Diane Elam's Work
1999. Retrieved June 27, 2007.

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