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Still Crazy After All These Years (Routledge Revivals)
Women, Writing and Psychoanalysis
The starting point for this book, first published in 1992, is a question of rhetoric – as much in the writings of feminism as in other writing about women. How do texts construct possibilities and limits, openings and impasses, which set the terms for the ways in which we think about what a woman...
Published November 23rd 2010 by Routledge
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Just Looking (Routledge Revivals)
Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola
The spectacular development of early consumer society in Britain, France and the United States had a profound impact on constructions of femininity and masculinity, and commercial and cultural values in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on novels by Theodore Dreiser,...
Published December 17th 2009 by Routledge
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Shopping with Freud
What is a consumer? Shopping with Freud looks at some of the surprising ways in which the consumer subject appears in a range of writings - from literature to marketing psychology to psychoanalysis. Rachel Bowlby shows how ideas about consumption are brought to bear on contemporary conceptions of...
Published September 1st 1993 by Routledge
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Still Crazy After All These Years
Women, Writing and Psychoanalysis
One of feminism's most dynamic critics brings together psychoanalysis, critical theory and cultural studies to look at how texts construct possibilities and limits for thinking what a woman is, and where women might be going....
Published November 11th 1992 by Routledge