Figures of Resistance

Teresa de Lauretis is a professor of the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema and other books. Patricia White, an associate professor and chair of film and media studies at Swarthmore College, is the author of Uninvited: Classical Holywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability.

"This is crucial work. What we find here is a scholar at the top of her form paying attention to her field, in its broadest contours and attempting to make sense of it at a key moment of transition. In terms of feminist writing on cinema, there is nobody else in de Lauretis's league." --B. Ruby Rich, author of Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement"De Lauretis's work is stimulating, innovative, and groundbreaking. Readers from a wide range of audiences will be grateful to have in a single volume the works of one of the most important feminist theorists working today." --Judith Mayne, Distinguished Humanities Professor, French and women's studies, Ohio State University

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Thinking Feminist by Patricia White Part I: Representations 1. Rethinking Women's Cinema (1985) 2. Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation (1988) 3. When Lesbians Were Not Women (2002) Part II: Readings 4. The Lure of the Mannish Lesbian (1991) 5. "Letter to an Unknown Woman" (1999) 6. Public and Private Fantasies in David Cronenberg's M. Butterfly (1999) Part III: Epistemologies 7. Eccentric Subjects (1990) 8. Upping the Anti: SUB? (1990) 9. Habit Changes (1994) 10. "Subjectivity, Feminist Politics, and the Intractability of Desire" (2002) 11. "Figures of Resistance" (2005) Notes Index