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1 online resource (viii, 190 pages) |
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Comparative cultural studies |
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Comparative cultural studies.
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Functions and risks of radical feminist "witches" -- Splitting the Feminist Subject -- The embarrassed "etc." at the end of the list |
| Summary |
In Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature, Justyna Sempruch analyzes contemporary representations of the "witch" as a locus for the cultural negotiation of genders. Sempruch revisits some of the most prominent traits in past and current perceptions in feminist scholarship of exclusion and difference. She examines a selection of twentieth-century US American, Canadian, and European narratives to reveal the continued political relevance of metaphors sustained in the archetype of the "witch" widely thought to belong to pop-cultural or folkloristic formulations of the past. Through a critical rereading of the feminist texts engaging with these metaphors, Sempruch develops a new concept of the witch, one that challenges traditional gender-biased theories linking it either to a malevolent "hag" on the margins of culture or to unrestrained "feminine" sexual desire. Sempruch turns, instead, to the causes for radical feminist critique of "feminine" sexuality as a fabrication of logocentric thinking and shows that the problematic conversion of the "hag" into a "superwoman" can be interpreted today as a therapeutic performance translating fixed identity into a site of continuous negotiation of the subject in process. Tracing the development of feminist constructs of the witch from 1970s radical texts to the present, Sempruch explores the early psychoanalytical writings of Cixous, Kristeva, and Irigaray, and feminist reformulations of identity by Butler and Braidotti, with fictional texts from different political and cultural contexts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-182) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| In |
Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
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Witches in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Feminist criticism.
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Feminist literary criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Feminist.
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Feminist literary criticism.
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Feminist criticism.
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Witches in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Literaturtheorie
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Hexe Motiv
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Literatur
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Frau Motiv
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Languages & Literatures.
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Literature - General.
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Feminism.
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Women.
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Feminist theory.
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Critique féministe.
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Femmes -- Dans la littérature.
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Sorcières -- Dans la littérature.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008004050 |
| ISBN |
9781612490281 |
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161249028X |
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9781612498997 |
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161249899X |
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1612498225 |
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9781612498225 |
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1612498221 |
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