Feminine Look by Jennifer Friedlander

Feminine Look by Jennifer Friedlander

Feminine Look shows how the Lacanian concept of sexuation makes possible a new account of the relationship among feminism, psychoanalysis, and spectatorship. Whereas previous studies have tended to ask how spectatorship may be influenced by sexual difference, Jennifer Friedlander asks how particular spectatorial encounters may engender different "sexuated" responses. In so doing, she traces a fresh path through Freud's account of the relationship between visual perception and sexual difference and rereads Freud's fable of castration anxiety, suggesting that sexual identity arises as a response to the symbolic order's indifference to the subject's need for a solid identity. She examines provocative and controversial artistic images by Jamie Wagg, Marcus Harvey, and Sally Mann to demonstrate how images not only create and embody social practices but also precipitate viewer anxieties and pleasures.

Jennifer Friedlander is Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College. She authored Moving Pictures: Where the Police, the Press, and the Art Image Meet (Sheffield Hallam University Press, 1998) and Feminine Look: Sexuation, Spectatorship, and Subversion (State University of New York Press, 2008).
She has published articles in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture; CiNéMAS: Journal of Film Studies; Subjectivity; (Re)-turn: A Journal of Lacanian Studies; Journal for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society; Subjectivity; and International Journal of Zizek Studies.

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ISBN 13	9780791472965
ISBN 10	0791472965
Title	Feminine Look
Author	Jennifer Friedlander
Series	Suny Series In Psychoanalysis And Culture
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	2009-01-08
Number of pages	149
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