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‘Postmodernism’ and ‘feminism’ have become familiar terms since the 1960s, developing alongside one another and clearly sharing many strong points of contact. Why then have the critical debates arising out of these movements had so little to say about each other? Patricia Waugh addresses the relationship between feminist and postmodernist writing and theory through the insights of psychoanalysis... Read more
1. Postmodernism and Feminism: Where Have All the Women Gone? 2. Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Fiction: Alternative ‘Selves’ 3. From Modernist Textuality to Feminist Sexuality; or Why I’m No Longer A-Freud of Virginia Woolf 4. Post-war Women Writers: Challenging the ‘Liberal Tradition’ 5. Contemporary Women Writers: Challenging Postmodernist Aesthetics
Biography
Patricia Waugh is Professor in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, UK.
