| Description |
xii, 276 pages ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Ways of Talking -- Gender -- Sex -- Sexuality -- The Modern Subject -- Institution -- Patriarchy -- Heterosexuality -- Homosexual -- Homosexuality -- Lesbian -- Gay -- Identity -- Experience -- Ch. 2. Ways of Thinking -- Models of Subjectivity -- The Linguistic Subject -- Gender and Subjectivity -- Psychoanalysis and Gender -- More Than One Freud -- Rethinking Gender: Feminisms and Identity -- The Question of Identity Politics -- Difference -- Psychoanalysis and the Other -- The Other Within -- Lacan's 'Lack' and the Power of the Phallus -- Critiques of 'The Phallus' -- Julia Kristeva and Abjection -- Difference and Power -- Partial Identities and Provisional Positions -- Feminist Standpoint Theory -- Fractured Identities -- Cyborg Feminism -- Queer (Non) Identities -- Bisexual Identities -- Masculine Identities: The Men's Movement and Men's Studies -- Embodiment -- Ch. 3. Ways of Reading -- Text -- Texts, Bodies and Identity -- Discourse -- Analysing Gendered Discourse -- Texts as Engendering Practices -- Analysing Textual Practice -- Genre -- Complexity and Disjunction -- Complex and Diverse Readers -- Ways of Reading -- Mainstream or Compliant Reading -- Resistant Reading -- Resisting the Text -- Rewriting the Text -- Rewriting the Reading -- Tactical Reading or 'Textual Poaching' -- Ch. 4. Ways of Seeing -- Stereotypes -- Inequalities of Power and Access -- Examples of Stereotypes -- Stereotypes in Conflict -- The Ormond College Case -- The Hill/Thomas Case -- Resisting Stereotypes -- Stereotype Reversal -- Identification -- Narcissism -- The Other in the Self -- Introjection and Projection -- Lacan and the Mirror Stage -- Fashion Photography and Sexuality -- Julia Kristeva and the Semiotic -- Going to the Movies -- The Gaze -- Voyeurism, Sadism and Fetishism -- Sexual Difference and Visual Pleasure -- Feminism and Film-Making -- The Woman as Spectator -- Femininity and Masculinity as Masquerade -- Challenging the Gendered Gaze: Transvestism to Posttranssexualism -- Queering the Gaze -- Ch. 5. Ways of Being -- Introduction -- Bodies of Knowledge -- Who Knows ...? -- The Gendered Learner -- Feminist Critiques of the Disembodied Knower -- Doctored Bodies -- Biopower: Control of the Body, Control of the Species -- The Deployment of Sexuality -- Challenging Reproductive Technologies -- Cocaine Mothers and Crack Babies -- New Bodies -- Fashioning Bodies -- Femininity, Masculinity and Fashion -- Born to Shop! -- The Freedom Bin -- Fashions of the Body -- Plastic Bodies -- The Body of the Law -- The Hysterical Body -- Gendered Bodies in Space -- Marked Bodies -- Hybrid Bodies -- Ch. 6. Ways of Living -- Where the Structural and the Psychic Meet: Gendered Labour and the Politics of Work -- Home is Where the Heart Is?: The Gendered Politics of Intimacy -- Sexual Space, Citizenship and Democracy -- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Negotiation of Gender Duality in Young Children -- Ch. 7. Conclusions |
| Summary |
The contributors to this study explore the work of the major theorists who have inspired and carried out feminist analysis in women's studies, gender studies, cultural studies and sociology |
| Notes |
Index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 253-269 |
| Subject |
Women's studies.
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Feminist theory.
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Women's studies -- Terminology.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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| Author |
Cranny-Francis, Anne.
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| LC no. |
2002035792 |
| ISBN |
0333776119 cloth |
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0333776127 paper |
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