Feminine/Masculine and Representation

by Terry Threadgold (Editor), Anne Cranny-Francis (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780046100186
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/01/1990
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

TERRY THREADGOLD, Associate Professor of English at the University of Sydney, is the author of Feminist Poetics (forthcoming). ANNE CRANNY-FRANCIS teaches cultural studies and critical theory at the University of Wollongong and is the author of Feminist Fiction.

Table of Contents

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