Title: Body matters: feminism, textuality, corporeality
Abstract: Section 1 Consumption, production and reproduction: candid advice to the fair sex - or, the politics of maternity in late 18th century Britain, Amanda Gilroy Mary Wolstonecraft's imperious sympathies - population, maternity and romantic individualism, Angela Keane productive, reproductive, and consuming bodies in Victorian aesthetic models, Regenia Gagnier embodying the new woman - Dorothy Richardson and the London cafe, Scott McCracken. Section 2 Matters of difference - misrecognition and dissymetries: bodily dissymetries and masculine anxiety - Herculine has the last laugh, Ursula Tidd embodying strangers, Sara Ahmend material difference and the supplementary body in Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Charmaine Eddy the body and its discontents, Elisabeth Bronfen. Section 3 Memory and mourning - narratives of violation: 18th century prostitutes - histories and methodologies, Vivien Jones the story of Draupadi's disrobing - meaning for our times, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan boundaries of violence - female migratory subjects, political agency, and postcoloniality, You-me Park substantiating discourses of emergence - corporeality, spectrality and postmodern historiography in Toni Morrison's Beloved, Susan Spearey. Section 4 Re-viewing bodies in fiction: little girls and large women - representations of the female body in Elizabeth Bowen's later fiction, Clare Hanson textural braille - visionary (re)readings of H.D., Rachel Connor Daphne du Maurier and gothic signatures - Rebecca as vamp(ire), Avril Horner, Sue Zlosnik. Section 5 Spirits, mystics and transcendents: memory, imagination and the (m)other - an Irigarayan reading of Charlotte Bronte's Villette, Sue Chaplin the lesbian Christ - body politics in Helene Cixous's Le Livre de Promethea, Val Gough imaginal bodies and feminine spirits - performing gender in Jungian theory and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, Susan Rowland.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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