New feminist discourses : critical essays on theories and texts ; edited by Isobel Armstrong

Other Authors: Armstrong, Isobel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London: Routledge, 1992
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Isobel Armstrong
  • Feminist aesthetics and the new realism / Laura Marcus
  • Walking, women and writing: Virginia Woolf as flaneuse / Rachel Bowlby
  • Happy families? Feminist reproduction and matrilineal thought / Linda R. Williams
  • An other space: a future for feminism / Jane Moore
  • Releasing possibility into form: cultural choice and the woman writer / Carol Watts
  • Fakes and femininity: Vita Sackville-West and her mother / Suzanne Raitt
  • The dangers of Angela Carter / Elaine Jordan
  • Love, mourning and metaphor: terms of identity / Kadiatu Kanneh
  • Why the ladyʹs eyes are nothing like the sun / Lorna Hutson
  • Unsilent instruments and the devilʹs cushions: authority ub seventeenth-century womenʹs prophetic discourse / Sue Wiseman
  • Getting down to basics: art, obscenity and the female nude / Lynda Nead
  • Do or die: problems of agency and gender in the aesthetics of murder / Josephine McDonagh
  • The politics of focus: feminism and photography theory / Lindsay Smith
  • The hand of the huntress: repetiition and Maloryʹs Morte Darthur / Catherine LaFarge
  • New hystericism: Aphra Bennʹs Oroonok: the body, the text and the feminist critic / Ros Ballaster
  • The great distinction: figures of the exotic in the work of William Hodges / HArriet Guest
  • ʹBecause men made the lawsʹ: the fallen woman and the woman poet / Angela Leigthon