Author : Toril Moi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415029740
Sexual
Toril Moi
Sexual Textual Politics
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Sexual/textual Politics
Toril Moi
Author : Toril Moi
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415280117
Sexual/textual Politics by Toril Moi Pdf
This book examines the strengths and limitations of the two main strands in feminist criticism, the Anglo-American and the French, paying particular attention to the works of Cixous, Irigaray and Kristeva.What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole?Sexual/Textual Politics addresses these fundamental questions and examines the strengths and limitations of the two main strands in feminist criticism, the Anglo-American and the French. It pays particular attention to the works of Cixous, Irigaray and Kristeva, and since publication this book has rightly attained the status of a classic. Although written for readers with little knowledge of the subject, Sexual/Textual Politics makes its own intervention into key debates, arguing provocatively for commitedly political and theoretical criticism rather than a textual or apolitical approach.With a new afterword in this edition, Sexual/Textual Politics is a brilliantly accessible must-read for all those interested in feminist literary theory.
Sexual Politics
Kate Millett
Author : Kate Millett
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231541725
Sexual Politics by Kate Millett Pdf
A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors—D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet—and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology, philosophy, and politics. Her eloquence and popular examples taught a generation to recognize inequities masquerading as nature and proved the value of feminist critique in all facets of life. This new edition features the scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon and the New Yorker correspondent Rebecca Mead on the importance of Millett's work to challenging the complacency that sidelines feminism.
What is a Woman?
Toril Moi
Author : Toril Moi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0198186754
What is a Woman? by Toril Moi Pdf
Is the sex/gender distinction really always fundamental to feminist thought? Arguing for a feminism of freedom inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, Toril Moi challenges dominant trends in feminist and cultural theory.
Sexual Politics and Feminist Science
Kirsten Leng
Author : Kirsten Leng
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501713248
Sexual Politics and Feminist Science by Kirsten Leng Pdf
Introduction : women and sexology : knowledge, possibilities, and problematic legacies -- The emergence of sexology in early twentieth century Germany -- As natural as eating, drinking, and sleeping : redefining the female sex -- Challenging the limits of sex : envisioning new gendered subjectivities and sexualities -- Troubling normal, taking on patriarchy : criticizing male (hetero)sexuality -- The erotics of racial regeneration : eugenics, maternity, and sexual -- New social and moral values will have to prevail : negotiating crisis and opportunity in the First World War -- Fluid gender, rigid sexuality : constrained potential in the post-war period
A Literature of Their Own
Elaine Showalter
Author : Elaine Showalter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691221960
A Literature of Their Own by Elaine Showalter Pdf
When first published in 1977, A Literature of Their Own quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the long but neglected tradition of women writers in England. A classic of feminist criticism, its impact continues to be felt today. This revised and expanded edition contains a new introductory chapter surveying the book's reception and a new postscript chapter celebrating the legacy of feminism and feminist criticism in the efflorescence of contemporary British fiction by women.
Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment
Mary Seidman Trouille
Author : Mary Seidman Trouille
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-08-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438422343
Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment by Mary Seidman Trouille Pdf
Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment constitutes the first book-length feminist study of Rousseau's sexual politics and the reception of his works by women readers. By today's standards, Rousseau's sexual politics appear reactionary, paternalistic, even blatantly misogynist; yet, among his female contemporaries, his works often met with enthusiastic approval and had tremendous impact on their values and behavior. To probe Rousseau's paradoxical appeal to eighteenth-century readers, Mary Trouille examines how seven women authors responded to his writings and sexual politics and traces his influence on their lives and works. The writers include six Frenchwomen (Roland, d'Epinay, Stael, Genlis, Gouges, and an anonymous woman correspondent who called herself Henriette) and the English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. The book constitutes an important contribution to French literature, women's studies, and eighteenth-century cultural studies. While a great deal has already been written on the individual women whom Trouille treats, what distinguishes this book is that it places multiple female subjects directly opposite Rousseau, and succeeds in showing that the relationship between mentor and student(s) is both multi-layered and fascinatingly complex.
Erotic Welfare
Judith Butler,Maureen MacGrogan
Author : Judith Butler,Maureen MacGrogan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317857273
Erotic Welfare by Judith Butler,Maureen MacGrogan Pdf
A trenchant critique of sexuality in an age of discipline, where bodies and pleasures have become sites of regulatory power.
Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics
Claire O’Callaghan
Author : Claire O’Callaghan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474271547
Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics by Claire O’Callaghan Pdf
Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics uniquely brings together feminist and queer theoretical perspectives on gender and sexuality through close analysis of works by Sarah Waters. This timely study examines topics ranging from heterosexuality, homosexuality, masculinities, femininities, sex, pornography, and the cultural effects of othering and domination across her work. The book covers each of Waters's published novels to date including Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith and The Paying Guests and also considers her non-fiction and academic writing as well as the television adaptations of her texts. O'Callaghan situates Water's writing as an important textual space for the examination of contemporary gender and sexuality studies and locates her as an astute commentator and contributor to twenty-first century gender and sexual politics.
Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism
Toril Moi
Author : Toril Moi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191502644
Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism by Toril Moi Pdf
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is the founder of modern theater, and his plays are performed all over the world. Yet in spite of his unquestioned status as a classic of the stage, Ibsen is often dismissed as a fuddy-duddy old realist, whose plays are of interest only because they remain the gateway to modern theater. In Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism , Toril Moi makes a powerful case not just for Ibsen's modernity, but for his modernism. Situating Ibsen in his cultural context, she shows how unexpected his rise to world fame was, and the extent of his influence on writers such Shaw, Wilde, and Joyce who were seeking to escape the shackles of Victorianism. Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism also rewrites nineteenth-century literary history; positioning Ibsen between visual art and philosophy, the book offers a critique of traditional theories of the opposition between realism and modernism. Modernism, Moi argues, arose from the ruins of idealism, the dominant aesthetic paradigm of the nineteenth century. She also shows why Ibsen still matters to us today, by focusing on two major themes-his explorations of women, men, and marriage and his clear-eyed chronicling of the tension between skepticism and the everyday. This radical new account places Ibsen in his rightful place alongside Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Manet as a founder of European modernism.
Beyond Feminist Aesthetics
Rita Felski
Author : Rita Felski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674068955
Beyond Feminist Aesthetics by Rita Felski Pdf
Felski presents a critical account of current American and European feminist literary theory, and analyzes contemporary fiction by women to show that no theorist can identify a specifically "female" or "feminine" kind of writing without reference to what gender means at a given historical moment. She argues that the idea of a feminist aesthetic is a non-issue needlessly pursued by feminists. She calls for a consideration of the social and cultural context in which these texts were produced and received, and demonstrates her method of an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of literature which can integrate literary and social theory. ISBN 0-674-06894-7: $25.00; ISBN 0-674-06895-5 (pbk.): $9.95.
Women Writing Culture
Ruth Behar,Deborah A. Gordon
Author : Ruth Behar,Deborah A. Gordon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520202082
Women Writing Culture by Ruth Behar,Deborah A. Gordon Pdf
Extrait de la couverture : ""Here, for the first time, is a book that brings women's writings out of exile to rethink anthropology's purpose at the end of the century. ... As a historical resource, the collection undertakes fresh readings of the work of well-known women anthropologists and also reclaims the writings of women of color for anthropology. As a critical account, it bravely interrogates the politics of authorship. As a creative endeavor, it embraces new Feminist voices of ethnography that challenge prevailing definitions of theory and experimental writing."
Surfacing the Politics of Desire
Rajeshwari S. Vallury
Author : Rajeshwari S. Vallury
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442691094
Surfacing the Politics of Desire by Rajeshwari S. Vallury Pdf
A particular model of masculine desire has traditionally been evoked in an effort to understand the subordinate role of women in male-authored fiction. Because of this, the belief that male-authored texts are unfailingly built upon the denial of feminine difference has come to dominate many aspects of literary studies. "Surfacing" the Politics of Desire re-examines the "myths" of masculine desire in order to challenge this premise, placing literature at the centre of recent feminist debates over the ontology and politics of sexual difference. Citing examples of textual resistance to analytical feminist thought, Rajeshwari S. Vallury argues that literature is expressive of desires that are not always configured in terms of oppression or the denial of difference. In other words, a particular politics of reading obscures the multiplicity of desire that literature is capable of affirming and risks sacrificing the possibilities of both literature and desire. Through a re-evaluation of the sexual politics practiced by nineteenth-century male writers such as Balzac, Gautier, and Maupassant, Vallury moves towards a reconfiguration of the relationship between aesthetics and politics. "Surfacing" the Politics of Desire calls into question dominant feminist approaches to the literary representation of gender. Enlisting the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, Vallury calls for a different method of reading, one based on a deeper understanding of the politics of literature.
Feminist Literary Theory
Mary Eagleton
Author : Mary Eagleton
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0631197346
Feminist Literary Theory by Mary Eagleton Pdf
Radically revised and expanded from its original format, this second edition covers new material on Black feminisms, and the impact of post-modernism on feminism. It is the perfect introduction to feminist literary theory today.
Gender in Translation
Sherry Simon
Author : Sherry Simon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134820856
Gender in Translation by Sherry Simon Pdf
Gender in Translation is a broad-ranging, imaginative and lively look at feminist issues surrounding translation studies. Students and teachers of translation studies, linguistics, gender studies and women's studies will find this unprecedented work invaluable and thought-provoking reading. Sherry Simon argues that translation of feminist texts - with a view to promoting feminist perspectives - is a cultural intervention, seeking to create new cultural meanings and bring about social change. She takes a close look at specific issues which include: the history of feminist theories of language and translation studies; linguistic issues, including a critical examination of the work of Luce Irigaray; a look at women translators through history, from the Renaissance to the twentieth century; feminist translations of the Bible; an analysis of the ways in which French feminist texts such as De Beauvoir's The Second Sex have been translated into English.
