Selfish Women

ISBN-13: 9780367249878 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 166 str.

Lisa Downing

Opis

Drawing on figures from French, US, and UK contexts, including Rachilde, Ayn Rand, Margaret Thatcher, and Lionel Shriver, and discourses from psychiatry, media, and feminism, this book revisits the words and works of selfish women of modernity to understand our fraught individual and collective identities as women.

Spis treści

Introduction Chapter 1: The Psychopathology of Selfishness: On Narcissism and Norms of Gender Chapter 2: The Philosophy of Selfishness: On Ayn Rand and Rational Self-Interest Chapter 3: The Politics of Selfishness: On Margaret Thatcher and Exceptional Women Chapter 4: Personal and Professional Practices of Selfishness: On Babies, Boardrooms, and Ballot Boxes Chapter 5: A Feminist Ethics of Selfishness? Beyond Individualism and Collectivism Conclusion

O autorze

Lisa Downing is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham, UK. A cultural critic of repute, she was the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2009. Downing is a specialist in interdisciplinary sexuality and gender studies, critical theory, and the history of cultural concepts, with an enduring interest in questions of exceptionality, difficulty, and (ab)normality. She is author or co-author of numerous books, journal articles, and book chapters, and is editor or co-editor of a number of book-length works. Recent titles include The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault (2008); Film and Ethics: Foreclosed Encounters (co-authored with Libby Saxton, 2009); The Subject of Murder: Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer (2013); Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money’s Diagnostic Concepts (co-authored with Iain Morland and Nikki Sullivan, 2015); and After Foucault (as editor, 2018). Her next book project is a short manifesto entitled Against Affect.