classical myth and feminist thought
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Zajko, Vanda > (ed.)
- Creator
- Leonard, Miriam > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Zajko, Vanda
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2008
- Thesaurus
- mythen, literatuur, antieke oudheid, feminisme, psychoanalyse, literaire analyse, filosofie, cyber-feminisme, geschiedenis, bètawetenschappen
- Description
- The aim of this collection of essays is to explore how classical myth has been central to the development of feminist thought. In the past feminist criticism has focused on psychoanalytical reinterpretation of specific myths. A famous example is Hélène Cixous's 'Laugh of the Medusa'. Contributors to this book state that psychoanalysis is only one of the fields that contribute to the development of feminist thought. Others are politics, philosophy, historiography, history, theory of science, and poetry. Among the writers and thinkers whose ideas on myth and feminism are discussed in the book we find: Wittig, Cixous, Irigaray, Lacan, Butler, and Haraway.