TERRY THREADGOLD, Associate Professor of English at the University of Sydney, is the author of Feminist Poetics (forthcoming). ANNE CRANNY-FRANCIS teaches cultural studies and critical theory at the University of Wollongong and is the author of Feminist Fiction.

• IllustrationsContributorsPreface1. Introduction2. The problematic of 'the feminine' in contemporary French philosophy: Foucault and Irigaray3. Modernity, rationality and 'the masculine'4. Inscriptions and body-maps: representations and the corporeal5. The discursive construction of Christ's body in the later Middle Ages: resistance and autonomy6. 'The feminine' as a semiotic construct: Zola's Une Page d'Amour7. Deconstructions of masculinity and femininity in the films of Marguerite Duras8. Cross-dressing in fiction: literary history and the cultural construction of sexuality9. Homosexualities: fiction, reading and moral training10. Soap opera as gender training: teenage girls and TV11. Gender, class and power: text, process and production in Strindberg's Miss Julie12. Scientific constructions, cultural productions: scientific narratives of sexual attraction13 The privileging of representation and the marginalising of the interpersonal: a metaphor (and more) for contemporary gender relationsAPPENDIXESA. Extra illustrating material for chapter 5B. French-English passages from Zola's Une Page d'Amour illustrating chapter 6C. Strindberg's Miss Julie: supporting material for chapter 11EndnotesBibliographyIndex

TERRY THREADGOLD, Associate Professor of English at the University of Sydney, is the author of Feminist Poetics (forthcoming). ANNE CRANNY-FRANCIS teaches cultural studies and critical theory at the University of Wollongong and is the author of Feminist Fiction.

• IllustrationsContributorsPreface1. Introduction2. The problematic of 'the feminine' in contemporary French philosophy: Foucault and Irigaray3. Modernity, rationality and 'the masculine'4. Inscriptions and body-maps: representations and the corporeal5. The discursive construction of Christ's body in the later Middle Ages: resistance and autonomy6. 'The feminine' as a semiotic construct: Zola's Une Page d'Amour7. Deconstructions of masculinity and femininity in the films of Marguerite Duras8. Cross-dressing in fiction: literary history and the cultural construction of sexuality9. Homosexualities: fiction, reading and moral training10. Soap opera as gender training: teenage girls and TV11. Gender, class and power: text, process and production in Strindberg's Miss Julie12. Scientific constructions, cultural productions: scientific narratives of sexual attraction13 The privileging of representation and the marginalising of the interpersonal: a metaphor (and more) for contemporary gender relationsAPPENDIXESA. Extra illustrating material for chapter 5B. French-English passages from Zola's Une Page d'Amour illustrating chapter 6C. Strindberg's Miss Julie: supporting material for chapter 11EndnotesBibliographyIndex

TERRY THREADGOLD, Associate Professor of English at the University of Sydney, is the author of Feminist Poetics (forthcoming). ANNE CRANNY-FRANCIS teaches cultural studies and critical theory at the University of Wollongong and is the author of Feminist Fiction.

• IllustrationsContributorsPreface1. Introduction2. The problematic of 'the feminine' in contemporary French philosophy: Foucault and Irigaray3. Modernity, rationality and 'the masculine'4. Inscriptions and body-maps: representations and the corporeal5. The discursive construction of Christ's body in the later Middle Ages: resistance and autonomy6. 'The feminine' as a semiotic construct: Zola's Une Page d'Amour7. Deconstructions of masculinity and femininity in the films of Marguerite Duras8. Cross-dressing in fiction: literary history and the cultural construction of sexuality9. Homosexualities: fiction, reading and moral training10. Soap opera as gender training: teenage girls and TV11. Gender, class and power: text, process and production in Strindberg's Miss Julie12. Scientific constructions, cultural productions: scientific narratives of sexual attraction13 The privileging of representation and the marginalising of the interpersonal: a metaphor (and more) for contemporary gender relationsAPPENDIXESA. Extra illustrating material for chapter 5B. French-English passages from Zola's Une Page d'Amour illustrating chapter 6C. Strindberg's Miss Julie: supporting material for chapter 11EndnotesBibliographyIndex