The Regime of the Brother: After the Patriarchy

by Juliet Flower MacCannell

Overview

The Regime of the Brother is one of the first attempts to challenge modernity on its own terms. Using the work of Lacan, Kristeva and Freud, Juliet MacCannell confronts the failure of modernity to bring about the social equality promised by the Enlightenment. On the verge of its destruction, the Patriarchy has reshaped itself into a new, and often more oppressive regime: that of the Brother.
Examining a range of literary and social texts - from Rousseau's Confessions to Richardson's Clarissa and from Stendhal's De L'Amour to James's What Maisie Knew and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea - MacCannell illustrates a history of the suppression of women, revealing the potential for a specifically feminine alternative.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134937820
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/22/2002
Series:	Opening Out: Feminism for Today
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	392 KB

About the Author

Juliet Flower MacCannell

Table of Contents

Part I: History and Theory of the Regime of the Brother 1. The Primal Scene of Modernity 2. Modernity as the Abscence of the Other Part II: Readings in the Regime of the Brother 3. Egomimesis 4. Feminine Eros: From the Bourgeois State to the Nuclear State Part III: The End(s) of Love in the Western World 5. The End(s) of Love in the Western World 6. Reconstructing the Desire of the Mother 7. After the New Regime