Feminist Theory And The Classics
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Author | : Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2014-02-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317857143 |
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Provides the first broad introduction to feminist work in classical studies. Including lesbian theory, black feminist theory, American and French feminist theory, classics will never be the same again.
Author | : Barbara F. McManus |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Download Classics & Feminism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Because the history of classics has been so deeply implicated in androcentric structures of knowledge and patriarchal social patterns, it illustrates with exceptional clarity many issues endemic to academic feminism as a whole.
Author | : Sharon Friedman |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0786452390 |
Download Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Re-visioning the classics, often in a subversive mode, has evolved into its own theatrical genre in recent years, and many of these productions have been informed by feminist theory and practice. This book examines recent adaptations of classic texts (produced since 1980) influenced by a range of feminisms, and illustrates the significance of historical moment, cultural ideology, dramaturgical practice, and theatrical venue for shaping an adaptation. Essays are arranged according to the period and genre of the source text re-visioned: classical theater and myth (e.g. Antigone, Metamorphoses), Shakespeare and seventeenth-century theater (e.g. King Lear, The Rover), nineteenth and twentieth century narratives and reflections (e.g. The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre, A Room of One's Own), and modern drama (e.g. A Doll House, A Streetcar Named Desire).
Author | : Patricia Hill Collins |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2002-06-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135960135 |
Download Black Feminist Thought Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. The result is a superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought.
Author | : Robin Truth Goodman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2015-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107126088 |
Download Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book offers an insightful look at the development of feminist theory through a literary lens. Stressing the significance of feminism's origins in the European Enlightenment, it traces the literary careers of feminism's major thinkers in order to elucidate the connection of feminist theoretical production to literary work.
Author | : Rita Felski |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674068957 |
Download Beyond Feminist Aesthetics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Felski presents a critical account of current American and European feminist literary theory, and analyzes contemporary fiction by women to show that no theorist can identify a specifically "female" or "feminine" kind of writing without reference to what gender means at a given historical moment. She argues that the idea of a feminist aesthetic is a non-issue needlessly pursued by feminists. She calls for a consideration of the social and cultural context in which these texts were produced and received, and demonstrates her method of an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of literature which can integrate literary and social theory. ISBN 0-674-06894-7: $25.00; ISBN 0-674-06895-5 (pbk.): $9.95.
Author | : Barbara Johnson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674001916 |
Download The Feminist Difference Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Employing surprising juxtapositions, THE FEMINIST DIFFERENCE looks at fiction by black writers from a feminist/psychoanalytic perspective, at poetry, and at feminism and law. The author presents an unfailingly close reading of moments at which feminism seems to founder in its own contradictions--and moments that reemerge as sources of a revitalized critical awareness. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author | : Ellen Rooney |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2006-07-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139826638 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented through language. This lively and thought-provoking Companion presents a range of approaches to the field. Some of the essays demonstrate feminist critical principles at work in analysing texts, while others take a step back to trace the development of a particular feminist literary method. The essays draw on a range of primary material from the medieval period to postmodernism and from several countries, disciplines and genres. Each essay suggests further reading to explore this field further. This is the most accessible guide available both for students of literature new to this developing field, and for students of gender studies and readers interested in the interactions of feminism, literary criticism and literature.
Author | : Kathi Weeks |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2018-08-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1786636050 |
Download Constituting Feminist Subjects Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A groundbreaking attempt to theorise the feminist subject One of the most important tasks for contemporary feminist theory is to develop a concept of the subject able to meet the challenges facing feminist politics. Although theorists in the 1980s raised the problem of feminist subjectivity, Kathi Weeks contends that the limited nature of that discussion now blocks the further development of feminist theory. While the problems of an already constituted essentialist subject have become patent, what remains as an ongoing project, Weeks contends, is a theory of the constitution of subjects capable of explaining the processes of social construction. This book presents one such account. Drawing on a number of different theoretical frameworks, including feminist standpoint theory, socialist feminism, and poststructuralist thought, as well as theories of peformativity and self-valorization, the author proposes a nonessential feminist subject—a theory of constituting subjects.
Author | : Vanda Zajko |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2006-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191556920 |
Download Laughing with Medusa Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Laughing with Medusa explores a series of interlinking questions, including: Does history's self-positioning as the successor of myth result in the exclusion of alternative narratives of the past? How does feminism exclude itself from certain historical discourses? Why has psychoanalysis placed myth at the centre of its explorations of the modern subject? Why are the Muses feminine? Do the categories of myth and politics intersect or are they mutually exclusive? Does feminism's recourse to myth offer a script of resistance or commit it to an ineffective utopianism? Covering a wide range of subject areas including poetry, philosophy, science, history, and psychoanalysis as well as classics, this book engages with these questions from a truly interdisciplinary perspective. It includes a specially commisssioned work of fiction, `Iphigeneia's Wedding', by the poet Elizabeth Cook.