Feminine sentences - Janet Wolff
essays on women and culture
KORTE INHOUD
Until recently, women have been noticeably absent from historical and sociological accounts of modernity. As a step toward remedying this situation, the essays gathered here challenge the continuing separation of sociological from textual analysis in cultural (and feminist) theory and inquiry. They address critically the question of women's writing, exploring the idea that women may begin to define their own lives and construct their own identities in a patriarchal culture through the very process of writing. They also present a cogent defense of a feminist cultural politics, including a politics of the body. Integrating material drawn from a variety of sources--feminist theory, cultural and literary analysis, sociology, and art history--Feminine Sentences is an original discussion of women's relationship to modern and postmodern culture. Janet Wolff's book represents a major statement of her distinctive position, and will be of interest to everyone working in the areas of cultural and literary theory, women'...
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1990Uitgever: University of California Press146 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0520074327ISBN-13: 9780520074323Koop dit boek tweedehands
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1990, 146pp. Paperback, staat: goed. Ex libris voorin. [Auteur: Wolff, Janet] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: University of California Press] [Jaar: 1990] [Titel: Feminine Sentences; Essays on women & Culture]
