New Feminist Discourses by Michael Armstrong

New Feminist Discourses by Michael Armstrong

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Summary

This collection of essays aims to set the agenda for feminist criticism in the nineties with debates on gendered knowledge, gendered language, representation of sexuality and feminist aesthetics amongst others, questioning current theories and disciplines.

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New Feminist Discourses by Michael Armstrong

This collection of feminist essays represents the work of young British critics. Aiming to set the agenda for feminist criticism in the nineties, the essays debate themes crucial to the development of feminist thought: The problem of gendered knowledge and the implications of accounts of gendered language, cultural constraints on the representation of sexuality, women's agency, cultural and political change, a feminist aesthetics and new readings of role and class. This variety is given coherence by a unity of aim - to forge new feminist discourses by addressing conceptual and cultural questions central to problems of gender and sexual difference. The topics of discussion range from matrilinear thought to 17th century prophecy; the poetry of Amelia Lanyer to Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs; from Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf to 18th century colonial painting of the South Pacific; from medieval romance to feminist epistemology. The essays utilise and question the disciplines of literary criticism, art history, photography, psychoanalysis, marxist history and post-structuralist theory. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and academics in women's studies, literary criticism and art history.
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ISBN 13 9780415067416
ISBN 10 0415067413
Title New Feminist Discourses
Author Michael Armstrong
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 1992-04-30
Number of pages 384
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