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Hysteric´s Guide to the Future Female Subject
Juliet Flower Maccannell
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Description for Hysteric´s Guide to the Future Female Subject
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
Proposes an ethics of the feminine through an examination of women’s writing.
The Hysteric’s Guide to the Future Female Subject was first published in 1999. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
How can a girl become a woman today—an ethical woman and a member of society—without being either a victim or a manipulator? Reflecting on this question, Juliet Flower MacCannell takes us for the first time beyond the flawed models for “becoming woman” left to us by Freud and Sade.Having previously explored the ... Read moreMacCannell treats contemporary art, fiction, and theory, considering works by Arendt, Angelou, Rousseau, Kant, Stendhal, Kleist, Hitchcock, Atwood, Klein, Chodorow, Adorno, and Duras. Ultimately, this book reasserts “becoming woman” as an issue that has, until now, been denied for want of a feminine ethic relevant to contemporary life. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816632961
SKU
V9780816632961
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About Juliet Flower Maccannell
Juliet Flower MacCannell is professor emerita of comparative literature, University of California, Irvine.
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