Feminine sentences : essays on women and culture
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Feminine sentences : essays on women and culture
Polity Press, 1990
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes index
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: hard ISBN 9780745607511
Description
This book examines the relationship between gender and literature. The author imagines that women's writing has a potentially important role in female self-definition in what she perceives as a predominantly patriarchal society. Although the main focus is on feminist writing and the experience and needs of women, the arguments deployed in this context are also applied to other sections of society, ethnic minorities, that are excluded from mainstream patrichal culture.
Table of Contents
- Prospects and problems for a post-modern feminism - an introduction
- the culture of separate spheres - the role of culture in 19th-century public and private life
- the invisible flaneuse - women and the literature of modernity
- feminism and modernism
- women's knowledge and women's art
- post-modern theory and feminist art practice
- texts and institutions - problems of feminist criticism
- reinstating corporeality - feminism and body politics.
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: pbk ISBN 9780745608556
Description
This new book integrates material drawn from a variety of sources - feminist theory, cultural and literary analysis, sociology and art history - in an original discussion of women's relationship to modern and post-modern culture. The essays in the book challenge the continuing separation of sociological from textual analysis in cultural (and feminist) theory and enquiry. They address critically the question of women's writing, exploring the idea that women may begin to define their own lives and construct their identities in a patriarchal culture through the very process of writing. They also present a cogent defence of a feminist cultural politics, including a politics of the body.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Illustrations. 1. Prospects and problems for a postmodern feminism: an introduction.
2. The culture of separate spheres: the role of culture in nineteenth-century public and private life.
3. The invisible flaneuse: women and the literature of modernity.
4. Feminism and modernism.
5. Women's knowledge and women's art.
6. Postmodern theory and feminist art practice.
7. Texts and institutions: problems of feminist criticism.
8. Reinstating corporeality: feminism and body politics.
Index.
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