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Zusatztext 'The verve of Rachel Bowlby's writing and the agility of her imagination make this not only a brilliant and shrewd! but an intoxicatingly hopeful book.' - New Statesman and Society'With extraordinary lightness of touch and playful wit! Rachel Bowlby opens up serious issues. One is left smiling and only gradually does one realize the lightness has touched the profound.' - Juliet Mitchell'Rachel Bowlby's subtle! intelligent and provocative book is among the most persuasive literary arguments I have read for the inextricable relations between feminism and psychoanalysis.' - Mary Jacobus! Cornell University Zusammenfassung How do texts construct possibilities and limits, openings and impasses, which set the terms for the ways in that we think about what a woman is, or where women might be going, whether individually or collectively? This book offers some possible answers and more questions, moving from Virginia Woolf to advertising and from Freud to Feminist theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Walking, Women and Writing: Virginia Woolf as flâneuse 2. The Impasse: Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight 3. P/S: The Return of m/f 4. ‘The Problem with no Name’: Rereading Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique 5. Soft Cell: Marketing Rhetoric in Feminist Criticism 6. Flight Reservations: The Anglo-American/French Divide in Feminist Criticism 7. The Judgement of Paris: (and the choice of Kristeva): French Theory and Feminism on this Side of the Channel 8. Still Crazy After all these Years: Travels in Feminism and Psychoanalysis 9. One Foot in the Grave: Freud on Jensen’s Gradiva

Summary

How do texts construct possibilities and limits, openings and impasses, which set the terms for the ways in that we think about what a woman is, or where women might be going, whether individually or collectively? This book offers some possible answers and more questions, moving from Virginia Woolf to advertising and from Freud to Feminist theory.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Bowlby, Bowlby Rachel
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.12.2009, delayed
• EAN: 9780415571296
• ISBN: 978-0-415-57129-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Feminism & feminist theory, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis