- Feminine - Masculine and Representation

ISBN-13: 9780367718060 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 320 str.

Terry Threadgold; Anne Cranny-Francis

Opis

Feminine/Masculine and Representation examines important debates about gender and sexuality, representation and cultural politics, and provides an introduction to some of the fundamental issues of gender studies, critical theory and cultural studies.

Spis treści

Illustrations

Contributors

Preface

1. Introduction

2. The problematic of 'the feminine' in contemporary French philosophy: Foucault and Irigaray

3. Modernity, rationality and 'the masculine'

4. Inscriptions and body-maps: representations and the corporeal

5. The discursive construction of Christ's body in the later Middle Ages: resistance and autonomy

6. 'The feminine' as a semiotic construct: Zola's Une Page d'Amour

7. Deconstructions of masculinity and femininity in the films of Marguerite Duras

8. Cross-dressing in fiction: literary history and the cultural construction of sexuality

9. Homosexualities: fiction, reading and moral training

10. Soap opera as gender training: teenage girls and TV

11. Gender, class and power: text, process and production in Strindberg's Miss Julie

12. Scientific constructions, cultural productions: scientific narratives of sexual attraction

13 The privileging of representation and the marginalising of the interpersonal: a metaphor (and more) for contemporary gender relations

APPENDIXES

A. Extra illustrating material for chapter 5

B. French-English passages from Zola's Une Page d'Amour illustrating chapter 6

C. Strindberg's Miss Julie: supporting material for chapter 11

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

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.