Download or read book Inventing Herself written by Elaine Showalter and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventing Herself is an account of women, from the 18th century to the present, who lived life on a grand scale. Uncovering the lives of feminist intellectuals, Elaine Showalter shows how the intellectual standard for modern feminists has been compromised by the spectre of celebrity.