Gender, I-deology: Essays on Theory, Fiction and FilmChantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy, José Angel García Landa De essays in deze bundel behandelen onder meer de representatie van sekse en sekserollen, de invloed van feministische kritiek, en het genderaspect in de (post)moderne tijd, zoals voorkomt in Britse en Amerikaanse literaire werken en films. In deel I en II (Theory en Fiction) aandacht voor o.a: Kristeva's Desire in language, Echo door Violet Trefusis, The magic toyshop door Angela Carter, Dystopia door Margaret Atwood, The passion en Sexing the cherry door Jeanette Winterson. In deel III (Film) o.a. aandacht voor Marlène Dietrich; de volgende films komen aan de orde: The big heat van Fritz Lang, South Pacific, Rear window van Alfred Hitchcock, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The purple rose of Cairo, When Harry met Sally, Switch van Blake Edwards, The silence of the lambs van Thomas Harris. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 29
Page 34
... authority at the work place . The two genders do not have equal authority . There is male and even female resistance to that minority of women who hold positions of power . Male authority in work , too , gives rise to cultural authority ...
... authority at the work place . The two genders do not have equal authority . There is male and even female resistance to that minority of women who hold positions of power . Male authority in work , too , gives rise to cultural authority ...
Page 77
... authority for the writing of women's experience while also revealing the ideology of the predominant masculinist represen- tations of reality . Still other groups of feminist historians have maintained that " the very procedures of ...
... authority for the writing of women's experience while also revealing the ideology of the predominant masculinist represen- tations of reality . Still other groups of feminist historians have maintained that " the very procedures of ...
Page 80
... authority , Bloom is able to conclude that a stu- dent is someone who can be discovered , someone whose " greatest talents are most difficult to perfect . " Bloom's use of the passive voice to describe the proper relationship between ...
... authority , Bloom is able to conclude that a stu- dent is someone who can be discovered , someone whose " greatest talents are most difficult to perfect . " Bloom's use of the passive voice to describe the proper relationship between ...
Page 81
... the loss of traditional male authority , but more than that , Bloom's discourse betrays a greater and more frightening anxiety : the loss of the woman's body . Women do have different physical structures , but they can 81 JoAnne Neff.
... the loss of traditional male authority , but more than that , Bloom's discourse betrays a greater and more frightening anxiety : the loss of the woman's body . Women do have different physical structures , but they can 81 JoAnne Neff.
Page 83
... authority . Or , the enslavement of minds that results 6 However , women are probably more integrated into lower levels of the academic hi- erarchy in Spain than in other countries . In the US , women make up only 10 percent of the ...
... authority . Or , the enslavement of minds that results 6 However , women are probably more integrated into lower levels of the academic hi- erarchy in Spain than in other countries . In the US , women make up only 10 percent of the ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Addams addiction American androgyny attitude Atwood Bannion Beauvoir become behaviour Black Breakfast at Tiffany's castration Cinema Cixous Clarice concept construction contemporary cultural desire discourse Dog-Woman dominant Editions Rodopi B.V. essay fantasy female body female characters feminine feminism feminist criticism Feminist Literary Criticism femme fatale film film noir Freud gender Greenblatt Handmaid's Tale Harry and Sally's heroine heterosexual Historicism Historicist Hollywood ideal identity ideology Irigaray Jeanette Jeanette Winterson Jordan Kristeva language linguistic literature London male Margaret Margaret Atwood marriage Mary masculine means misogyny mother myth narrative narrator novel object oppression patriarchal perspective play political position postmodern protagonist reader relations relationship representation represented role romance Routledge Sally science fiction semiotic Sexing the Cherry sexual difference Showalter social society spectator story structure symbolic theory tion traditional Trefusis Uncle Philip University of Zaragoza Villanelle voice Winterson woman women writers York Zaragoza
Popular passages
Page 30 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Page 89 - Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Page 244 - So I never could tell where you Put your foot, your root, I never could talk to you. The tongue stuck in my jaw. It stuck in a barb wire snare. Ich, ich, ich, ich, I could hardly speak.
Page 141 - It gives me wonder great as my content, To see you here before me. O my soul's joy ! If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd...
Page 155 - As if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. It was the work of the rushing gust— but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the Lady Madeline of Usher. There was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame.
Page 156 - Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the roof of the building in front, made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction, until it became lost in the sullen waters of the tarn.
Page 98 - The meaning of a representation can be nothing but a representation. In fact, it is nothing but the representation itself conceived as stripped of irrelevant clothing. But this clothing can never be completely stripped off; it is only changed for something more diaphanous. So there is an infinite regression here.
Page 141 - Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 8 - When it most closely allies itself to Beauty: the death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world...
Page 153 - In halls such as these, in a bridal chamber such as this, I passed with the Lady of Tremaine the unhallowed hours of the first month of our marriage, passed them with but little disquietude. That my wife dreaded the fierce moodiness of my temper, that she shunned me, and loved me but little, I could not help perceiving, but it gave me rather pleasure than otherwise.