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A medida que se desarrolla el pensamiento feminista, y la teoría literaria consiguiente gana espacios en América Latina y en México, en particular, brota la apremiante necesidad de realizar un acercamiento a los textos teóricos y críticos de anglosajonas y francesas, que han ampliado el dominio conceptual en estas áreas del conocimiento. Con el objeto de tender un puente lingüístico entre los términos que revisten estas categorías de análisis y su tradición al español, Cecilia Olivares reúne y examina en esta obra, veinticinco vocablos feministas que sirven como fundamento a numerosas reflexiones feministas sobre la escritura y producción textual.
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This text explores the re-assertion of right-wing populist and fascist ideologies as presented and distributed in the media. In particular, attacks on immigrants, women, minorities, and LGBTQI people are increasing, inspired by the election of politicians who openly support authoritarian discourse and scapegoating. More troubling is how this discourse is inscribed into laws and policies. Despite the urgency of the situation, the Left has been unable to effectively respond to these events, from liberals insisting on hands-off free speech policies, including covering "both sides of the issue" to socialists who utilize a tunnel vision focus on economic issues at the expense of women and minorities. In order to effectively resist right-wing movements of this magnitude, a socialist/Marxist feminist analysis is necessary for understanding how racism, sexism, and homophobia are conduits for capitalism, not just ‘identity issues.’ Topics addressed in this text include an overview of dialectical materialist feminism and its relevance and a review of characteristics of authoritarian populism and fascism. Additionally, the insistence on a colorblind conceptualization of the working class is critiqued, with its detrimental effects on moving resistance and activism forward. This was a key weakness with the Bernie Sanders campaign, which is discussed. Online environments and their alt-right discourse/function are used as an example of the ineffectiveness of e-libertarianism, which has prioritized hands-off administration, allowing right-wing discourse to overcome many online spaces. Other topics include the emergence of the fetal personhood construct in response to abortion rights, and the rejection of science and expertise.
Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Social Science --- Sociology --- General --- Socialist feminism. --- Populism. --- Right-wing extremists. --- Mass media --- Feminist criticism. --- Political aspects.
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Witches in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Feminist criticism. --- Criticism --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry
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The first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts the intellectual and institutional boundaries on that discipline. The seventeen essays collected here, most published for the first time, together call for the contextualization of the study of comparative literature within the areas of discourse, culture, ideology, race, and gender. Contributors: Bella Brodzki, VèVè A. Clark, Chris Cullens, Greta Gaard, Sabine Gölz, Sarah Webster Goodwin, Margaret R. Higonnet, Marianne Hirsch, Susan Sniader Lanser, Françoise Lionnet, Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Lore Metzger, Nancy K. Miller, Obioma Nnaemakea, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Anca Vlasopolos.
Comparative literature --- Critique littéraire féministe --- Feminist literary criticism --- Feministische literatuurkritiek --- Comparative literature. --- Feminist literary criticism. --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Literary criticism, Feminist --- Feminism and literature --- Feminist criticism --- History and criticism --- Literature [Comparative ]
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As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,' Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa's Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically and literally. A victim of rape, she is first a victim of hermeneutic abuse. Drawing on feminist criticism and hermeneutic theory, Castle examines the question of authority in the novel. By tracing the patterns of abuse and exploitation that occur when meanings are arbitrarily and violently imposed, she explores the sexual politics of reading.
Epistolary fiction, English --- Women and literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Richardson, Samuel, --- Reader-response criticism. --- Rape victims in literature. --- Reader-oriented criticism --- Reception aesthetics --- Criticism --- Reading --- hermeneutics --- Samuel Richardson --- sexual politics --- reader-response criticism --- Clarissa --- feminist criticism
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Scholarship on early Medieval England has seen an exponential increase in scholarly work by and about women over the past 20 years, but the field has remained peculiarly resistant to the transformative potential of feminist critique. Since 2016, Medieval Studies has been rocked by conversations about the state of the field, shifting from #MeToo to #WhiteFeminism to the purposeful rethinking of the label 'Anglo-Saxonist'. This volume takes a step toward decentring the traditional scholarly conversation with 13 essays by American, Canadian, European, and UK professors, along with independent scholars and early career researchers from a range of disciplinary perspectives. The theoretical and political commitments of this volume comprise one strand of a multivalent effort to rethink the parameters of the discipline and to create a scholarly community that is innovative, inclusive, and diverse.
English literature --- Feminist literary criticism. --- Women and literature --- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066). --- History and criticism. --- History --- Medieval, Old English, women, gender. --- Literary criticism, Feminist --- Feminism and literature --- Feminist criticism --- Medieval --- gender --- Old English --- women
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This collection brings together an exciting group of established and emerging scholars to consider the history of feminist film theory and new developments in the field and in film culture itself. Opening the field up to urgent questions and covering such topics as new experimental film, the digital image, consumerism, activism, and pornography, 'Feminisms' will be essential reading for scholars of both film and feminism.
Feminism and motion pictures. --- Feminist film criticism. --- Women in motion pictures. --- Women on television. --- Feminist film criticism --- Feminism and motion pictures --- Women in motion pictures --- Women on television --- Film --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Women in television --- Women in television plays --- Motion pictures and feminism --- Television --- Motion pictures --- Feminist criticism --- Film criticism --- Feminism
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The Other Women’s Lib provides the first systematic analysis of Japanese literary feminist discourse of the 1960's—a full decade before the "women’s lib" movement emerged in Japan. It highlights the work of three well-known female fiction writers of this generation (Kono Taeko, Takahashi Takako, and Kurahashi Yumiko) for their avant-garde literary challenges to dominant models of femininity. Focusing on four tropes persistently employed by these writers to protest oppressive gender stereotypes—the disciplinary masculine gaze, feminist misogyny, "odd bodies," and female homoeroticism—Julia Bullock brings to the fore their previously unrecognized theoretical contributions to second-wave radical feminist discourse. In all of these narrative strategies, the female body is viewed as both the object and instrument of engendering. Severing the discursive connection between bodily sex and gender is thus a primary objective of the narratives and a necessary first step toward a less restrictive vision of female subjectivity in modern Japan. The Other Women’s Lib further demonstrates that this "gender trouble" was historically embedded in the socioeconomic circumstances of the high-growth economy of the 1960's, when prosperity was underwritten by an increasingly conservative gendered division of labor that sought to confine women within feminine roles. Raised during the war to be "good wives and wise mothers" yet young enough to take advantage of the opportunities presented to them by Occupation-era reforms, the authors who fueled the 1960's boom in women’s literary publication staunchly resisted normative constructions of gender, crafting narratives that exposed or subverted hegemonic discourses of femininity that relegated women to the negative pole of a binary opposition to men. Their fictional heroines are unapologetically bad wives and even worse mothers; they are often wanton, excessive, or selfish and brazenly cynical with regard to traditional love, marriage, and motherhood. The Other Women’s Lib affords a cogent and incisive analysis of these texts as feminist philosophy in fictional form, arguing persuasively for the inclusion of such literary feminist discourse in the broader history of Japanese feminist theoretical development. It will be accessible to undergraduate audiences and deeply stimulating to scholars and others interested in gender and culture in postwar Japan, Japanese women writers, or Japanese feminism.
Japanese fiction --- Women in literature. --- Feminist literary criticism --- Gender identity in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Literary criticism, Feminist --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Identity --- Feminism and literature --- Feminist criticism --- Japanese literature --- Identity. --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity
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Political philosophy and feminist theory have rarely examined in detail how capitalism affects the lives of women. Ann Cudd and Nancy Holmstrom take up opposing sides of the issue, debating whether capitalism is valuable as an ideal and whether as an actually existing economic system it is good for women. In a discussion covering a broad range of social and economic issues, including unequal pay, industrial reforms and sweatshops, they examine how these and other issues relate to women and how effectively to analyze what constitutes 'capitalism' and 'women's interests'. Each author also responds to the opposing arguments, providing a thorough debate of the topics covered. The resulting volume will interest a wide range of readers in philosophy, political theory, women's studies and global affairs.
Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy --- Capitalism --- Feminism. --- Social aspects. --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Emancipation --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Economic order --- Feminism --- Feminist criticism --- Theory --- Book
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Presents new perspectives on representations of female heterosexuality in selected contemporary British and American novels.Drawing on feminist and queer theories of sex, gender and sexuality, this study focuses on female identities at odds with heterosexual norms. In particular, it explores narratives in which the conventional equation between heterosexuality, reproductive sexuality and female identity is questioned. Key Features: A timely exploration of the dynamic relationship between feminist and queer theory Offers close analysis of influential novels by leading contemporary authors, i
American fiction --- English fiction --- Heterosexuality in literature. --- Feminist literary criticism. --- Literary criticism, Feminist --- Feminism and literature --- Feminist criticism --- English literature --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- Contemporary Fiction --- sexuality --- queer theory --- women writers --- feminist theory --- critical theory --- Heteronormativity --- Heterosexuality --- Homosexuality --- Human sexuality --- Lesbian --- Spinster
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