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Sea changes : essays on culture and feminism / Cora Kaplan.

By: Series: Questions for feminismPublication details: London : Verso, 1986.Description: 232 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0860918645 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820/.9/9287 19
Contents:
Radical feminism and literature -- Wild nights -- The feminist politics of literary theory -- Language and gender -- The indefinite disclosed -- The thorn birds -- Pandora's box -- Keeping the color in The color purple -- Wicked fathers -- Red Christmases --Speaking/writing/feminism.
Summary: The essays in this book develop a socialist-feminist perspective on a wide range of crucial and diverse issues in feminist theory and cultural criticism. They explore the present and past of feminist debates on sexuality, from Wollsontecraft through Millett and Rich. Using both psychoanalysis and Marxism they pose questions about the place of women's writing in the construction of class, race and gender hierarchies. They ask us to engage with the expression of difference in the work of Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, Alice Walker and Colleen McCullough, and in the theory that interprets this body of work. Looking at popular romance from "Jane Eyre" to "The Thorn Birds", Cora Kaplan shows how feminist understanding of subjectivity and sexual difference engages with the wider terrain of political meaning.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 828.99109287 KAP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 62963

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Radical feminism and literature -- Wild nights -- The feminist politics of literary theory -- Language and gender -- The indefinite disclosed -- The thorn birds -- Pandora's box -- Keeping the color in The color purple -- Wicked fathers -- Red Christmases --Speaking/writing/feminism.

The essays in this book develop a socialist-feminist perspective on a wide range of crucial and diverse issues in feminist theory and cultural criticism. They explore the present and past of feminist debates on sexuality, from Wollsontecraft through Millett and Rich. Using both psychoanalysis and Marxism they pose questions about the place of women's writing in the construction of class, race and gender hierarchies. They ask us to engage with the expression of difference in the work of Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, Alice Walker and Colleen McCullough, and in the theory that interprets this body of work. Looking at popular romance from "Jane Eyre" to "The Thorn Birds", Cora Kaplan shows how feminist understanding of subjectivity and sexual difference engages with the wider terrain of political meaning.

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