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From: Modern Drama[(essay date March 1989) In the following essay, Wilson finds parallels between the portrayal of hysterics in Cixous's Portrait of Dora and Joan Schenkar's Signs of Life.] Much feminist criticism of the arts is...
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From: Dalhousie French Studies
Female Infidelity: Ideology, Subversion, and Feminist Practice in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron
[(essay date fall 2001) In the following essay, Frelick examines the portrayal of marriage throughout the Heptaméron, maintaining that Marguerite offers no absolute judgment on marital relations.] Literature has been... -
From: Arizona Quarterly[(essay date autumn 1989) In the following essay, Byers comments that Alien,Blade Runner, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, and Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers include several moments of "startling misogyny," arguing...
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From: James Joyce Quarterly[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, first presented at a conference in 1991, Ingersoll reads “The Dead” as a narrative of gender-based conflict between Gabriel and his wife and, more generally, in the domestic...
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From:Velvet Light Trap (Issue 85) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the Zombie Mouth Fleshlight, a product from the Fleshlight line of male masturbatory sex "toys." Modeled to resemble the oral orifice of the zombie, the Zombie Mouth presents the illusion that it is...
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From: High Anxiety: Masculinity in Crisis in Early Modern France[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Staples surveys criticism of Pantagruel, focusing on the role and treatment of women in the novel. Staples is highly critical of most modern scholars, arguing that many readings...
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From: Modern Language Studies[(essay date spring 1995) In the following essay, Quay explores the patriarchal social constructs implicit in The Rape of Lucrece and examines how they "promote and permit" rape.] The notions of integrity and closure...
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From: Transitions: Literary Feminisms[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Robbins discusses how Luce Irigaray constructs her concept of feminine identity in such works as Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One, noting how Irigaray's...
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From: Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction[(essay date fall 1998) In the following essay, Carter explores the mother-daughter relationship in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, arguing that Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre acts as a mother-text for the heroine,...
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From: Contemporary Literature[(essay date spring 2003) In the following essay, Shih applies the psychoanalytical theories of Sigmund Freud to the intimate relationships in "Bardon Bus," emphasizing the role of parental influence on the characters'...
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From: Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism[(essay date 1986) In the following essay, Jacobus argues that feminist readings of "The Yellow Wallpaper," such as those by Annette Kolodny and Jean E. Kennard, fail to account for the many "uncanny" and gothic elements...
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From: Ciberletras[(essay date 2017) In the following essay, Maginn explores Grandes’s The Ages of Lulu, suggesting that Grandes breaks the mold of masculine erotica by subverting traditional gender roles and narrating a sexual awakening...
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From: American Literary Realism, 1870-1910[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, Mitchell argues that Brown and Wilson differed in their depiction of female characters because of their own gender biases and experiences.] The first four novels by African...
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From: Journal of Modern Literature[(essay date spring 2009) In the essay below, Czarnecki identifies Sasha Jansen, the heroine of Jean Rhys's novel Good Morning, Midnight, as a victim of Kristevan female depression, a condition that develops when the...