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Second Skins
The Body Narratives of Transsexuality
Av Jay Prosser
Häftad, 1998
368 kr
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Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in flesh and head--to cross the boundary of sex. Telling their story is not merely an act that comes after the fact, …
Between Men
English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
Häftad, 2015
260 kr
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First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. With stunning foresight and conceptual power, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's work opened not …
Between Men
English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
Häftad, 1993
299 kr
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Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most influential texts in gender studies, men's studies and gay studies," this book uncovers the homosocial desire between men, from Restoration comedies to Tennyson's Princess.
Gender and the Politics of History
Häftad, 2018
285 kr
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This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. Joan Wallach Scott offers a trenchant critique of the compartmentalization of women’s history, arguing that political and social …
Writing on the Body
Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory
Av Katie Conboy, Nadia Medina m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
311 kr
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In many fields, the body is the topic generating exciting new research and interdisciplinary inquiry. Feminist theorists, in particular, have focused on the female body as the site where representations of difference and identity are inscribed. Drawn from a broad range of disciplines, Writing on …
Thinking Through the Body
Av Jane Gallop
Häftad, 1990
692 kr
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From one of our most outspoken feminist critics, this collection explores various ways in which the body can be rethought of as a site of knowledge rather than as a medium to move beyond or dominate. Moving between a theoretical and confessional stance, Gallop explores Sade's relation to mothers …
Subject to Change
Reading Feminist Writing
Häftad, 1990
421 kr
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-- Elaine Marks, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Shifting Scenes
Interviews on Women, Writing, and Politics in Post-68 France
Inbunden, 1991
1172 kr
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Fifteen of the most important and influential women fiction writers, critics, and theorists writing in France today are interviewed in Shifting Scenes. Although their writing and attitudes differ in many ways, their work is perceived in the U.S. to constitute "French Feminism," and has a marked …
Shifting Scenes
Interviews on Women, Writing, and Politics in Post-68 France
Häftad, 1991
657 kr
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Fifteen of the most important and influential women fiction writers, critics, and theorists writing in France today are interviewed in Shifting Scenes. Although their writing and attitudes differ in many ways, their work is perceived in the U.S. to constitute "French Feminism," and has a marked …
Hamlet's Mother and Other Women
Inbunden, 1990
2561 kr
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Carolyn G. Heilbrun's groundbreaking essay "The Character of Hamlet's Mother" was published in 1957 at a time when few critics thought seriously about women's issues in literature. In the years since, Heilbrun has emerged as a feminist leader through her commitment to women's writing and feminist …
Hamlet's Mother and Other Women
Häftad, 2002
692 kr
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Carolyn G. Heilbrun's groundbreaking essay "The Character of Hamlet's Mother" was published in 1957 at a time when few critics thought seriously about women's issues in literature. In the years since, Heilbrun has emerged as a feminist leader through her commitment to women's writing and feminist …
Rape and Representation
Av Lynn Higgins, Lynn Higgins m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
2313 kr
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Rape does not have to happen. The fact that it does--and in the United States a rape is reported every six minutes--indicates that we live in a rape-prone culture where rape or the threat of rape functions as a tool for enforcing sexual difference and hierarchy. Rape and Representation explores how …
Rape and Representation
Av Lynn Higgins, Lynn Higgins m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
644 kr
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Rape does not have to happen. The fact that it does--and in the United States a rape is reported every six minutes--indicates that we live in a rape-prone culture where rape or the threat of rape functions as a tool for enforcing sexual difference and hierarchy. Rape and Representation explores how …
The Apparitional Lesbian
Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture
Av Terry Castle
Häftad, 1995
377 kr
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In essays on literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, on the homosexual reputation of Marie Antoinette, on the lesbian writings of Anne Lister, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Janet Flanner, and on Henry James's The Bostonians, Castle shows how a lesbian …
Engaging with Irigaray
Feminist Philosophy and Modern European Thought
Av Carolyn Burke, Naomi Schor m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
798 kr
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Engaging with Irigaray is the first collection of essays that attempts to go beyond the question of essentialism in order to provide a full critical assessment of Irigaray's contribution to a number of fields, notably philosophy. By reconsidering Irigaray's writings in the field of European thought …
Modern Feminisms
Political, Literary, Cultural
Av Maggie Humm
Häftad, 1992
663 kr
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This is the first comprehensive collection of feminist politics and writings by the most influential feminists of the twentieth century, with a full glossary of key terms, section introductions, and entries on individual writers. Contributors include Simone de Beauvoir, Catharine A. MacKinnon, …
Feminism and Sexuality
A Reader
Inbunden, 1996
2913 kr
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-- Jane Gallop, author of Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment
Feminism and Sexuality
A Reader
Häftad, 1996
798 kr
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-- Jane Gallop, author of Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment
Second Skins
The Body Narratives of Transsexuality
Av Jay Prosser
Inbunden, 1998
2364 kr
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Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in flesh and head--to cross the boundary of sex. Telling their story is not merely an act that comes after the fact, …
Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America
Inbunden, 2001
2561 kr
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Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America explores the relationship between confessional poetry and constitutional privacy doctrine, both of which emerged at the end of the 1950s. While the public declarations of the Supreme Court and the private declamations of the lyric poet may seem unrelated, both …
Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America
Häftad, 2001
421 kr
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Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America explores the relationship between confessional poetry and constitutional privacy doctrine, both of which emerged at the end of the 1950s. While the public declarations of the Supreme Court and the private declamations of the lyric poet may seem unrelated, both …
No Room of Their Own
Gender and Nation in Israeli Women's Fiction
Av Yael Feldman
Häftad, 1999
318 kr
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Unlike the literary traditions of the United States, England, and France, the first century of Hebrew literature was lacking in women novelists; women tended to write poetry, while prose fiction was mainly the domain of male writers. Since the 1980s, however, there has been a virtual explosion of …
Critical Condition
Feminism at the Turn of the Century
Av Susan Gubar
Inbunden, 2000
513 kr
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Is feminism dead, as has been claimed by notable members of the media and the academy? Has feminist knowledge, with its proliferation of methodologies and fields, been purchased at the price of power? Are the conflicts among feminists evidence of self-destructive infighting or do they herald the …
Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism
Av Nancy Bauer
Häftad, 2001
319 kr
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In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that "a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a man poses no problem." Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking: "Then what kind of a problem does being a woman pose?" Bauer's aim is to show …
Feminist Consequences
Theory for the New Century
Av Elisabeth Bronfen, Misha Kavka
Inbunden, 2001
1356 kr
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Exploring the status of feminism in this "postfeminist" age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French theorists and male thinkers and instead builds on a wide-ranging body of feminist theory written by …
Feminist Consequences
Theory for the New Century
Av Elisabeth Bronfen, Misha Kavka
Häftad, 2001
694 kr
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Exploring the status of feminism in this "postfeminist" age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French theorists and male thinkers and instead builds on a wide-ranging body of feminist theory written by …
Palatable Poison
Critical Perspectives on The Well of Loneliness
Inbunden, 2002
1463 kr
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The Well of Loneliness-the Radclyffe Hall novel at times referred to as "the bible of lesbianism"-was released in Britain in 1928 and was immediately controversial. Pronounced obscene following a sensational trial, the book has become a cultural icon as well as a source of considerable debate, …
Palatable Poison
Critical Perspectives on The Well of Loneliness
Häftad, 2002
480 kr
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The Well of Loneliness-the Radclyffe Hall novel at times referred to as "the bible of lesbianism"-was released in Britain in 1928 and was immediately controversial. Pronounced obscene following a sensational trial, the book has become a cultural icon as well as a source of considerable debate, …
But Enough About Me
Why We Read Other People's Lives
Häftad, 2002
657 kr
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In her latest work of personal criticism, Nancy K. Miller tells the story of how a girl who grew up in the 1950s and got lost in the 1960s became a feminist critic in the 1970s. As in her previous books, Miller interweaves pieces of her autobiography with the memoirs of contemporaries in order to …
Cool Men and the Second Sex
Inbunden, 2003
1103 kr
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Academic superstars Andrew Ross, Edward Said, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Bad boy filmmakers Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, and Brian de Palma. What do these influential contemporary figures have in common? In Cool Men and the Second Sex, Susan Fraiman identifies them all with "cool masculinity" and …
