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Author: Elizabeth Abel
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780226000763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays discuss feminist criticism, attitudes toward sexual difference, female identity, and the works of Eliot and Stein
Author: Barbara Johnson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780674001916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmploying surprising juxtapositions, THE FEMINIST DIFFERENCE looks at fiction by black writers from a feminist/psychoanalytic perspective, at poetry, and at feminism and law. The author presents an unfailingly close reading of moments at which feminism seems to founder in its own contradictions--and moments that reemerge as sources of a revitalized critical awareness. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author: Abigail Bray
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2003-12-11
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1403938873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbigail Bray offers a lucid and accessible introduction to Hélène Cixous and her theorisation of writing and sexual difference. This book explores the context of feminist debates surrounding Cixous's work and provides a concise explanation of her major philosophical and literary concepts, including the 'other bisexuality', the 'third body', and l'écriture feminine. Bray demonstrates, through original and provocative readings of texts by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector and Angela Carter, the creative potential of Cixous's thought on literature and philosophy. Reading Cixous alongside Nietzsche, Heidegger, Deleuze and Derrida, Bray argues for a recognition of Cixous as one of the important thinkers of our times.
Author: Susan Sellers
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1992-01-15
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780312061616
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Language and Sexual Difference" aims to introduce the innovative, radical, and challenging theories of French feminism to non-French speakers.
Author: Shoshana Felman
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1993-10
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780801846205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the question ("what does a woman want?") through close readings of autobiographical texts by Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Adrienne Rich, Sigmund Freud, and Honore' de Balzac.
Author: Henrietta L. Moore
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0745668054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this new book Henrietta Moore examines the nature and limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about sex, gender and sexuality. Moore begins by discussing recent feminist debates on the body and the notion of the non-universal human subject. She then considers why anthropologists have contributed relatively little to these debates, and suggests that this has much to do with the history of anthropological thought with regard to the conceptualization of "persons" and "selves" cross-culturally. Moore develops a specific anthropological approach to feminist post-structuralist and psychoanalytic theory. In subsequent chapters Moore pursues a series of related themes including the links between gender, identity and violence; questions of gender and identity in the context of intra-household resource allocation; the construction of domestic space and its relationship to bodily practices and the internationalization of relations of difference; and the links between the gender of the anthropologist and the writing of anthropology. This volume demonstrates anthropology's contribution to current debates in feminist theory.
Author: Chris Beasley
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2005-05-20
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780761969792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbout various theories of gender, sexuality, feminism and masculinity including queer theory, transgender theorizing, modernist liberationism and social constructionism.
Author: D. N. Rodowick
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1317928547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and female spectatorship, the author maintains that early film theorists and feminist critics are equally guilty of imposing a binary conception of sexual difference on Freud’s thought. By embracing such a rigid definition of male/female difference, they fail to understand the fundamentally complex and fluid process of sexual identification as it is articulated in Freud’s writing, constructed in film texts, and negotiated by spectators. The book turns to Freud’s work on fantasy to develop an alternative model for interpreting sexuality in the visual and narrative arts, one that emphasizes a ‘politics of critical reading’ over accepted theories of ideological identification. Originally published in 1991, its strategic focus on psychoanalysis itself as an object of historical and critical inquiry, and not simply as a reading method is the unique quality of this book.
Author: Luce Irigaray
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2005-02-01
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780826477125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLuce Irigaray (1932-) is the foremost thinker on sexual difference of our times. In An Ethics of Sexual Difference Irigaray speaks out against many feminists by pursuing questions of sexual difference, arguing that all thought and language is gendered and that there can therefore be no neutral thought. Examining major philosophers, such as Plato, Spinoza and Levinas, with a series of meditations on the female experience, she advocates new philosophies through which women can develop a distinctly female space and a "love of self". It is an essential feminist text and a major contribution to our thinking about language.
Author: Susan Sellers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1991-12-02
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1349217824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible introduction to French feminist theory and contemporary French women's writing for non-French speakers. The book offers a context to this challenging, controversial body of work by giving clear accounts of the philosophical, post-structural and psychoanalytic debates which have had such an impact on French intellectual life in recent years, and to which French feminist writers offer a response.
