
Coming Out of Feminism?
Wiley (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 29. July 1998
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-55786-701-8 (ISBN)
Description
Has Queer Theory 'grown out' of Feminism - in both senses? If it has, is that process a coming-out story?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
508 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55786-701-8 (9781557867018)
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Mandy Merck | Naomi Segal | Elizabeth Wright
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Persons
Naomi Segal is Professor of French Studies at the University of Reading. She is the author of The Banal Object (1981), The Unintended Reader (1986), Narcissus and Echo: Women in the French Recit (1988), The Adulteress's Child (1992) and Andre Gide: Pederasty and Pedagogy and is the co-editor of Freud in Exile and Scarlett Letters (1997). Mandy Merck teaches on the Sexual Dissidence MA programme at the University of Sussex. The former series editor of Channel Four Television's 'Out on Tuesday', she is the author of Perversions: Deviant Readings (1993) and After Diana (1998). Her next book is In Your Face: Essays on the Representation of Sex.
Elizabeth Wright is a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice (1984), Postmodern Brecht: A RePresentation (1989), and the editor of Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary (1992). Her newer books are Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Reappraisal (1998), Speaking Desires Can be Dangerous: Psychoanalysis, Language and Literary Theory (1999) and The Zizek Reader, co-edited with Edmond Wright (1999).
Elizabeth Wright is a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice (1984), Postmodern Brecht: A RePresentation (1989), and the editor of Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary (1992). Her newer books are Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Reappraisal (1998), Speaking Desires Can be Dangerous: Psychoanalysis, Language and Literary Theory (1999) and The Zizek Reader, co-edited with Edmond Wright (1999).
Editor
University of Sussex
University of Reading
University of Cambridge
Content
List of Contributors. Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
1. Sexualities without Genders and other Queer Utopias: Biddy Martin.
2. Sexual Traffic: Gayle Rubin (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley).
3. Sissies and Sisters: Gender, Sexuality and the Possibilities of Coalition: William Spurlin (Columbia University).
4. Reflections on Gynophobia: Emily Apter (UCLA).
5. Mother, Can't You See I'm Burning? Between Female Homosexuality and Homosociality in Radclyffe Hall's The Unlit Lamp: Trevor Hope (University of Rochester).
6. Desiring Machines? Queer Re-visions of Feminist Film Theory: Carole-Anne Tyler (University of California, Riverside).
7. Andre Gide and the Niece's Seduction: Naomi Segal (University of Reading).
8. Savage Nights: Mandy Merck.
9. Coming Out of the Real: Knots and Queries: Elizabeth Wright (Girton College, Cambridge).
Index.
Introduction.
1. Sexualities without Genders and other Queer Utopias: Biddy Martin.
2. Sexual Traffic: Gayle Rubin (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley).
3. Sissies and Sisters: Gender, Sexuality and the Possibilities of Coalition: William Spurlin (Columbia University).
4. Reflections on Gynophobia: Emily Apter (UCLA).
5. Mother, Can't You See I'm Burning? Between Female Homosexuality and Homosociality in Radclyffe Hall's The Unlit Lamp: Trevor Hope (University of Rochester).
6. Desiring Machines? Queer Re-visions of Feminist Film Theory: Carole-Anne Tyler (University of California, Riverside).
7. Andre Gide and the Niece's Seduction: Naomi Segal (University of Reading).
8. Savage Nights: Mandy Merck.
9. Coming Out of the Real: Knots and Queries: Elizabeth Wright (Girton College, Cambridge).
Index.