Gender, I-deology essays on theory, fiction and film

I. THEORY.José Angel GARCÍA LANDA: The Film of Familiarity: Gender, I-deology and Addictive Representation. Angeles de la CONCHA: The Female Body: A Resonant Voice in the Multicultural Scene. JoAnne NEFF VAN AERTSELAER: Fear, Desire and Masculinity. Carmen OLIVARES RIVERA: Women and Religion: A Brief Survey. Beatriz PENAS IBÁÑEZ: Kristeva's Desire In Language: A Feminist Semiotic. Perspective on Language and Literature. Francisco COLLADO RODRÍGYEZ: Complexity / Controversy: Some Aspects of Contemporary Women's Studies in America. Olga BARRIOS: Formulating the Aesthetics of African American Women Playwrights: The Resonance of the Black Liberation and Black Theater Movements. Pilar HIDALGO: The New Historicism and Its Female Discontents. II. FICTION. Marita NADAL BLASCO: The Death of a Beautiful Women Is, Unquestionably, the Most Poetical Topic in the World: Poetic and Parodic Treatment of Women in Poe's Tales. María Dolores HERRERO: George Egerton's Wedlock: Unlocking Closed Doors, Looking for a Key of One's Own. Lois RUDNICK: Feminist Utopian Visions in the Early 20th Century U.S. Ana ZAMORANO: Adrift on an Unknown Sea: Androgyny and Writing with Particular Reference to Echo by Violet Trefusis. Constanza DEL RÍO ALVARO: Misogyny in Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman. Pamela SARGENT: Women and Science Fiction. Isabel FRAILE: The Silent Woman: Silence as Subversion in Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop. Celia FLORÉN: A Reading of Margaret Atwood's Dystopia, The Handmaid's Tale. María DEL MAR ASENSIO ARÓSTEGUI: Subversion of Sexual Identity in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion. Susana GONZÁLEZ ABALOS: Winterson's Sexing the Cherry: Rewriting Woman through Fantasy. Susana ONEGA JAÉN: Jeanette Winterson's Politics of Uncertainty in Sexing the Cherry. III. FILM. Hilaria LOYO: Dietrich's Androgyny and Gendered Spectatorship. María Dolores ROMERO: Woman's Death and Patriarchal Closure in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat. Vickie OLSEN: The Subordination of Gender to Race Issues in the Film Musical South Pacific. Juan A. SUÁREZ SÁNCHEZ: The Rear View: Paranoia and Homosocial Desire in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. Chantal CORNUT-GENTILLE D'ARCY: Who's Afraid of the Femme Fatale in Breakfast at Tiffany's? Exposure and Implications of a Myth. Bárbara ARIZTI MARTIN: Female Spectatorship in The Purple Rose of Cairo. Ramón PLO ALASTRUÉ: Gender and Genre Conventions in When Harry Met Sally. Celestino DELEYTO: Regulating Desire: Castration and Fantasy in Blake Edwards' Switch. Sara Martín ALEGRE: Not Oedipus' Sister: The Redefinition of Female Rites of Passage in the Screen Adaptation of Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs. Thelma J. SHINN: Gender Images and Patterns from Novel to Film.