Masculine/feminine : practices of difference(s)
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Masculine/feminine : practices of difference(s)
（Post-contemporary interventions / series editors, Stanley Fish & Fredric Jameson）（Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução）
Duke University Press, c2004
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Masculino/femenino
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [81]-86) and index
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Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a participant in Chile's neo-avantgarde, Richard worked to expand the possibilities for cultural debate within the constraints imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990), and she has continued to offer incisive commentary about the country's transition to democracy. Well known as the founder and director of the influential Santiago-based journal Revista de critica cultural, Richard has been central to the dissemination throughout Latin America of work by key contemporary thinkers, including Nestor Garcia Canclini, Jacques Derrida, Fredric Jameson, and Diamela Eltit. Her own writing provides rigorous considerations of Latin American identity, postmodernism, gender, neoliberalism, and strategies of political and cultural resistance. Richard helped to organize the 1987 International Conference on Latin American Women's Literature in Santiago, one of the most significant literary events to take place under the Pinochet dictatorship. Published in Chile in 1993, Masculine/Feminine develops some of the key issues brought to the fore during that landmark meeting. Richard theorizes why the feminist movement has been crucial not only to the liberation of women but also to understanding the ways in which power operated under the military regime in Chile. In one of her most widely praised essays, she explores the figure of the transvestite, artistic imagery of which exploded during the Chilean dictatorship. She examines the politics and the aesthetics of this phenomenon, particularly against the background of prostitution and shantytown poverty, and she argues that gay culture works to break down the social demarcations and rigid structures of city life. Masculine/Feminine makes available, for the first time in English, one of Latin America's most significant works of feminist theory.
Table of Contents
Translator's Acknowledgments vii
Translator's Preface ix
Note on This Translation xiii
ONE Spatial Politics: Cultural Criticism and Feminist Theory 1
TWO Does Writing Have a Gender? 17
THREE Politics and Aesthetics of the Sign 29
FOUR Gender Contortions and Sexual Doubling: Tranvestite Parody 43
FIVE Feminism and Postmodernism 55
Notes 69
Bibliography 81
Index 87
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