feminism, textuality, corporeality
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Horner, Avril > (ed.)
- Creator
- Keane, Angela > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Rowland, Susan
- Publish Year
- 2000
- Shelfmark
- B662 - B
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, filosofie, literatuur, lichamen, vrouwbeelden, historisch, wereld, bundel
- Description
- The essays discuss current theoretical debates with analysis of literaty and other kinds of textual representations of 'the body'. The work of Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Brontë, Dorothy Richardson, Daphne du Maurier, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison and others is considered in the light of theorists as Judith Butler, Elisabeth Grosz, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Cixous and Irigaray. The essays are organised into sections which consider 'the body' from different perspectives, such as: production, consumption and reproduction: the ethics of representation: 'the body' as a foundation for contemporary identity politics: literary and cultural value: spiritualism, mysticism and transcedence.