Feminist Theory and the Classics

Feminist Theory and the Classics
Author: Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317857143

Provides the first broad introduction to feminist work in classical studies. Including lesbian theory, black feminist theory, American and French feminist theory, classics will never be the same again.

Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works

Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works
Author: Sharon Friedman
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786452390

Re-visioning the classics, often in a subversive mode, has evolved into its own theatrical genre in recent years, and many of these productions have been informed by feminist theory and practice. This book examines recent adaptations of classic texts (produced since 1980) influenced by a range of feminisms, and illustrates the significance of historical moment, cultural ideology, dramaturgical practice, and theatrical venue for shaping an adaptation. Essays are arranged according to the period and genre of the source text re-visioned: classical theater and myth (e.g. Antigone, Metamorphoses), Shakespeare and seventeenth-century theater (e.g. King Lear, The Rover), nineteenth and twentieth century narratives and reflections (e.g. The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre, A Room of One's Own), and modern drama (e.g. A Doll House, A Streetcar Named Desire).

Classics & Feminism

Classics & Feminism
Author: Barbara F. McManus
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1997
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

Because the history of classics has been so deeply implicated in androcentric structures of knowledge and patriarchal social patterns, it illustrates with exceptional clarity many issues endemic to academic feminism as a whole.

Black Feminist Thought

Black Feminist Thought
Author: Patricia Hill Collins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2002-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135960135

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. The result is a superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought.

The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory

The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory
Author: Ellen Rooney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2006-07-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139826638

Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented through language. This lively and thought-provoking Companion presents a range of approaches to the field. Some of the essays demonstrate feminist critical principles at work in analysing texts, while others take a step back to trace the development of a particular feminist literary method. The essays draw on a range of primary material from the medieval period to postmodernism and from several countries, disciplines and genres. Each essay suggests further reading to explore this field further. This is the most accessible guide available both for students of literature new to this developing field, and for students of gender studies and readers interested in the interactions of feminism, literary criticism and literature.

The Feminist Difference

The Feminist Difference
Author: Barbara Johnson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780674001916

Employing surprising juxtapositions, THE FEMINIST DIFFERENCE looks at fiction by black writers from a feminist/psychoanalytic perspective, at poetry, and at feminism and law. The author presents an unfailingly close reading of moments at which feminism seems to founder in its own contradictions--and moments that reemerge as sources of a revitalized critical awareness. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Toward a Feminist Theory of the State

Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
Author: Catharine A. MacKinnon
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1989
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780674896468

Toward a Feminist Theory of the State presents Catharine MacKinnon’s powerful analysis of politics, sexuality, and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory of gender centered on sexual subordination and applies it to the state. The result is an informed and compelling critique of inequality and a transformative vision of a direction for social change.

Beyond Feminist Aesthetics

Beyond Feminist Aesthetics
Author: Rita Felski
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1989
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780674068957

Felski presents a critical account of current American and European feminist literary theory, and analyzes contemporary fiction by women to show that no theorist can identify a specifically "female" or "feminine" kind of writing without reference to what gender means at a given historical moment. She argues that the idea of a feminist aesthetic is a non-issue needlessly pursued by feminists. She calls for a consideration of the social and cultural context in which these texts were produced and received, and demonstrates her method of an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of literature which can integrate literary and social theory. ISBN 0-674-06894-7: $25.00; ISBN 0-674-06895-5 (pbk.): $9.95.

Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism

Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism
Author: Sandra M. Gilbert
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 997
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780393927900

With selections by more than 100 writers and scholars, the Reader is an ideal companion for literature surveys where critical and theoretical texts are featured, as well as a rich, flexible core text for advanced courses in feminist theory and criticism. The Reader can be packaged with the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, Third Edition, at a substantial discount.

Feminism and Film Theory

Feminism and Film Theory
Author: Constance Penley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135201056

First published in 1988. Feminism and Film Theory traces the major issues in feminist film theory as they have evolved over the last decade. Comprised of essays that are classics of this intellectually sophisticated area of cultural studies, Feminism and Film Theory makes available much sought after essays that are often difficult to find. Empha­sizing the polemical challenge of feminism to film theory, this anthology forces us to reconsider film theory's most basic ideas about genre, narrative, image, spec­tatorship, and audience. The essays offer a model for a politically engaged critique of contemporary thought. Feminism and Film Theory will be of great interest to students and scholars concerned with film, critical theory, art and media, cultural studies, or feminism.