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From: Guilt and Shame: Essays in French Literature, Thought, and Visual Culture[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Bolton deems the protagonist of the film Morvern Callar an example of Irigaray's idea of the woman escaping male authority by becoming immersed in sensory perception.] The...
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From: Reader[(essay date fall 2003) In the following essay, Bostic addresses the difficulties of translating The Way of Love into English, highlighting the function of language as a vehicle for love in the book.] It is love that...
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From:Intertexts (Vol. 3, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe relationship between language and femininity, and in particular between language and the female body, is a key concern that features prominently, if sometimes differently, in the French feminist theories of Helene...
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From:Journal of the History of Sexuality (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAncient constructions oh sexuality, it has generally been thought, hinged not on the gender of the person with whom one had sex but rather on what position one occupied in the sexual act: penetrator or penetrated....
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From:Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSince the 1970s, fairy tales like Cinderella have been criticized for negatively acculturating women, but this reading fails to account for an inherent spirituality which is necessary to understanding the Cinderella...
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From: Narrative Inquiry[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Löyttyniemi studies the development of identity via dialogue and narrative discourse in The Way of Love, suggesting that devices like plotting and poetic rhythm enact the...
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From:New Formations (Issue 68) Peer-ReviewedThe relation between morphology and becoming-woman is a contentious one. Deleuze and Guattari have been critiqued by Irigaray as fetishising woman. However Irigaray, Deleuze and Guattari each posit a challenge to...
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From: Contemporary Literature[(essay date 1988) In the following essay, Gates responds to an earlier essay by feminist scholar Margaret Homans (see above) in which she discusses works by Irigaray and Naylor’s Linden Hills. Gates focuses on the...
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From: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature[(essay date spring 2002) In the following essay, Grosz explores two strands of futurist feminist criticism as expressed through the works of Luce Irigaray and Gilles Deleuze.] A revolution in thought and ethics is...
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From:Essays and Studies (Vol. 2004)Genre, Gothic, Fairy Tale Describing the literary preferences of Rainbow Rosenbloom, the lesbian Jewish heroine of The Dyke and the Dybbuk (1993), Ellen Galford humorously refers to her predilection for what she...
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From: Hypatia[(essay date summer 2007) In the following essay, Jacobs suggests that both Irigaray and psychoanalyst Melanie Klein successfully describe the structural aspects of the mother-daughter relationship but fail to develop...
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From: Philosophy Today[(essay date fall 1992) In the following essay, Quick analyzes Irigaray's philosophical construction of female subjectivity, emphasizing the "fluidity" of femininity.] The Department of Psychoanalysis at the University...
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From: Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date winter 2000) In the following essay, Dellamora analyzes apocalyptic rhetoric in Irigaray, comparing her vision of gender relations with that of poststructuralists Emmanuel Lévinas and Michel Foucault.]...
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From: Twentieth-Century Women Novelists: Feminist Theory Into Practice[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Watkins explores the critical writings of Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva--as well as Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando--and argues that these works function...
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 46, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed"The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations" (94). These sentences comprise one of Oscar Wilde's best known epigrams. The first suggests that, in the book of nature and Western...
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From: Journal of Religion and Popular Culture[(essay date spring 2009) In the following essay, Ugrina applies the concept of the bleeding woman found in "Belief Itself" to the theme of the sacramental female body in the films Stigmata and The Messenger.] To...
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From: Representations of the Middle Ages[In the following essay, Gladden challenges the notion (promoted by Hildegard herself) that Hildegard was a passive agent of God's will whose writings merely record divine truth as it was imparted to her. Gladden argues...
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From: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Lu notes the comments of male critics in China who often dismiss Can Xue as narcissistic and paranoid. Lu counters the assessments with an analysis of three of her stories that...
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From:Intertexts (Vol. 13, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedStarting out as a poet who eventually turned to fiction, Iuliia Voznesenskaia was also one of the main figures of the Soviet feminist movement, a fact that makes her biography both unusual and courageous. In the 1970s,...
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From: Divine Love: Luce Irigaray, Women, Gender, and Religion[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Joy compares the revolutionary stance toward the potential reconfiguration of social and metaphysical notions of gender espoused by Irigaray and Mary Daly. Joy concludes that...