SOURCE: A review of No Man's Land, Volume 1: The War of Words, in English Language Notes, Vol. 28, No. 1, September, 1990, pp. 73–7.

In the following review of The War of Words, Sedgwick praises Gubar and Gilbert's discussion of conflicts between women, but faults the writers for apparent homophobic slips regarding men.

In his nightclub act, Michael Feinstein has a rather strange song about what happens when women stick together:

Shall we join the ladies? I mean really join the ladies And make one great big lady? Whaddaya say—Queen Kong!(1) 

Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar (who, whatever the pleasures of their durable, celebrated collaboration, must get tired of being conflated into one great big lady) have written in The War of the Words an exploration of the relations between and among women, even more than of the relations between women and men. The most interesting section of the book...