Feminine/Masculine and Representation
Published on 1. February 1990
320 pages
978-1-74269-662-1 (ISBN)
Description
Feminine/Masculine and Representation provides a much needed introduction to a number of challenging issues raised in debates within gender studies, critical theory and cultural studies. In analysing cultural processes using a range of different methods, the essays in this collection focus on gender/sexuality, representation and cultural politics across a variety of media.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Australia
Publishing group
Allen & Unwin
File size
5,50 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-74269-662-1 (9781742696621)
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Terry Threadgold | Anne Cranny-Francis
Feminine/Masculine and Representation
Book
02/1990
1st Edition
Allen & Unwin
€67.11
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Persons
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.
Content
Introduction, Terry Threadgold; The problematic of "the feminine" in contemporary French philosophy - Foucault & Irigaray, Rosi Braidotti; Modernity, rationality and the "masculine", Ross Poole; Inscriptions and body-maps - representations and the corporeal, Elizabeth Grosz; The discursive construction of Christ's body in the later Middle Ages - resistance and autonomy, Jennifer Ash; "The feminine" as a semiotic construct - Zola's "Une Page d'Amour", Maryse Rochecouste; Deconstructions of masculinity and femininity in the films of Marguerite Duras, Michelle Royer; Cross-dressing in fiction - literary history and the cultural construction of sexuality, Virginia Blain; Homosexualities - fiction, reading and moral training, Michael Hurley; Soap opera as gender training - teenage girls and TV, Anne Cranny-Francis & Patricia Palmer Gillard; Gender, class and power - text, process and production in Strindberg's "Miss Julie", Susan Yell; Scientific constructions, cultural productions: scientific narratives of sexual attraction, Gisela T. Kaplan & Lesley J. Rogers; The privileging of representation and the marginalizing of the interpersonal - a metaphor (and more) for contemporary gender relations, Cate Poynton.
