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The essays in this volume represent the most recent thinking collected on the problematics of feminism and critical theory, engaging the question of the relationship between these terms and the differences within each in terms of the other. As a whole, this piece of an extended conversation within feminism suggests both the illusory comfort of generic demarcations and the discomforting power of the play of difference. The articles are theoretically wide-ranging and provocative, offering discussion of works by such authors as Nella Larsen, Frances Harper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker,

Title The difference within : feminism and critical theory / editors, Elizabeth Meese, Alice Parker.
Publisher Amsterdam
Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
Creation Date 1989
Notes Papers presented at the 13th Annual University of Alabama Symposium on Literature and Language, held in 1986.
Includes bibliographies.
English
Content THE DIFFERENCE WITHIN: FEMINISM AND CRITICAL THEORY
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on contributors
""Grins . . . without the cat"": Introductory remarks on ""The difference within""
REFERENCES
Nancy Reagan wears a hat: Feminism and its cultural consensus
NOTES
Some different meanings of the concept of ""difference"":Feminist theory and the concept of ideology
""Difference"" I.
""Difference"" II.
""Difference"" III.
Discussion
The asylums of Antaeus Women, war and madness: Is there a feminist fetishism?
1. Helen's plot
2. The semiotics and somatics of woman's suffrage
When Lindbergh sleeps with Bessie Smith: The writing of place in Toni Morrison's Sula
Sieving the matriheritage of the sociotext
1. Preliminary remarks
2. Slovo and writing by women
3. Woman, self, social being
4. La femme qui parte: ""Madame Texte""
5. The enthymeme in writing by women
The power of division
Notes on an alternative model - neither/nor
REFERENCES
Feminist historiography and post-structuralist thought Intersections and departures
A response to ""The difference within: Feminism and critical theory""
Series Critical theory, 0920-3060
v. 8
Extent 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) : illustrations
Language English
National Library system number 997010707142305171
MARC RECORDS

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