Rövid leírás:
Feminine/Masculine and Representation examines important debates about gender and sexuality, representation and cultural politics, and provides an introduction to some of the fundamental issues of gender studies, critical theory and cultural studies.
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Hosszú leírás:
Feminine/Masculine and Representation provides a much needed introduction to a number of challenging issues raised in debates within gender studies, critical theory and cultural studies. In analysing cultural processes using a range of different methods, the essays in this collection focus on gender/sexuality, representation and cultural politics across a variety of media.
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Tartalomjegyzék:
Illustrations
Contributors
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The problematic of ‘the feminine’ in contemporary French philosophy: Foucault and Irigaray
3. Modernity, rationality and ‘the masculine’
4. Inscriptions and body-maps: representations and the corporeal
5. The discursive construction of Christ’s body in the later Middle Ages: resistance and autonomy
6. ‘The feminine’ as a semiotic construct: Zola’s Une Page d’Amour
7. Deconstructions of masculinity and femininity in the films of Marguerite Duras
8. Cross-dressing in fiction: literary history and the cultural construction of sexuality
9. Homosexualities: fiction, reading and moral training
10. Soap opera as gender training: teenage girls and TV
11. Gender, class and power: text, process and production in Strindberg’s Miss Julie
12. Scientific constructions, cultural productions: scientific narratives of sexual attraction
13 The privileging of representation and the marginalising of the interpersonal: a metaphor (and more) for contemporary gender relations
APPENDIXES
A. Extra illustrating material for chapter 5
B. French-English passages from Zola’s Une Page d’Amour illustrating chapter 6
C. Strindberg’s Miss Julie: supporting material for chapter 11
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
