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Although the book is described lightly as a tool-kit-- and indeed Mills's Summary lists questions through which a text can be analyzed for its representations of gender-- Feminist Stylistics is a complex, many-layered approach to reading that enables a reader to look beneath overt content in order to see hidden messages which, while often unrecognized by both writer and reader, nevertheless reinforce and help to legitimatize stereotypical notions about gender differences embedded in our culture.
For lay readers and students who are not familiar with the prevailing concepts of mainstream linguistics, stylistics, and literary analysis, Mills's Introduction provides a helpful explication of current theories and positions in these disciplines.
In giving readers the means to recognize--and, if they choose, to resist--such characterizations, Feminist Stylistics is an important, ground-breaking book.
(Some might protest that the study called stylistics deals with art in language, but those who know the nature of stylistics are aware that it does not even come close to measuring effectiveness, poetry, eloquence, beauty, and other characteristics associated with artistic expression.)
Her book establishes a framework for such analysis designed both to describe sexism in a text and, through a process she names feminist stylistics, to deconstruct the way in which point of view, agency, metaphor, and other features of the text are unexpectedly closely related to matters of gender.