Feminine/masculine and representation. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Terry Threadgold, Anne Cranny-Francis.
• Editors: Threadgold, Terry; Cranny-Francis, Anne
• Contents: Illustrations; ; Contributors; ; Preface ; ; 1. Introduction; ; 2. The problematic of 'the feminine' in contemporary French philosophy: Foucault and Irigaray; ; 3. Modernity, rationality and 'the masculine'; ; 4. Inscriptions and body-maps: representations and the corporeal; ; 5. The discursive construction of Christ's body in the later Middle Ages: resistance and autonomy; ; 6. 'The feminine' as a semiotic construct: Zola's Une Page d'Amour ; ; 7. Deconstructions of masculinity and femininity in the films of Marguerite Duras; ; 8. Cross-dressing in fiction: literary history and the cultural construction of sexuality; ; 9. Homosexualities: fiction, reading and moral training; ; 10. Soap opera as gender training: teenage girls and TV; ; 11. Gender, class and power: text, process and production in Strindberg's Miss Julie ; ; 12. Scientific constructions, cultural productions: scientific narratives of sexual attraction; ; 13 The privileging of representation and the marginalising of the interpersonal: a metaphor (and more) for contemporary gender relations; ; APPENDIXES; ; A. Extra illustrating material for chapter 5; ; B. French-English passages from Zola's Une Page d'Amour illustrating chapter 6; ; C. Strindberg's Miss Julie : supporting material for chapter 11; ; Endnotes; ; Bibliography; ; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.3; Femininity; Masculinity; Sex differences (Psychology); Sex in popular culture
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000257076
• Related ISBNs: 9781000249477; 9781000253269; 9781003115618
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