1st Edition
New Feminist Discourses Critical Essays on Theories and Texts
1. Introduction Isobel Armstrong Part 1: Knowledges 2. Feminist Aesthetics and the New Realism Laura Marcus 3. Walking, Women and Writing: Virginia Woolf as flâneuse Rachel Bowlby 4. Happy Families? Feminist Reproduction and Matrilinear Thought Linda R Williams 5. An Other Space: A Future for Feminism Jane Moore Part 2: Subjectivities 6. Releasing Possibility into Form: Cultural Choice and the Woman Writer Carol Watts 7. Fakes and Femininity: Vita Sackville-West and her Mother Suzanne Raitt 8. The Dangers of Angela Carter Elaine Jordan Part 3: Languages 9. Love, Mourning and Metaphor: Terms of Identity Kadiatu Kanneh 10. Why the Lady’s Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun Lorna Hutson 11. Unsilent Instruments and the Devil’s Cushions: Authority in Seventeenth-century Women’s Prophetic Discourse Sue Wiseman Part 4: Representations 12. Getting down to Basics: Art, Obscenity and the Female Nude Lynda Nead 13. Do or Die: Problems of Agency and Gender in the Aesthetics of Murder Josephine McDonagh 14. The Politics of Focus: Feminism and Photography Theory Lindsay Smith 15. The Hand of the Huntress: Repetition and Malory’s Morte Darthur Catherine LaFarge Part 5: Others 16. New Hystericism: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko: the Body, the Text and the Feminist Critic Ros Ballaster 17. The Great Distinction: Figures of the Exotic in the Work of William Hodges Harried Guest 18. ‘Because Men Made the Laws;: The Fallen Woman and the Woman Poet Angela Leighton
Biography
Isobel Armstrong is Emeritus Professor of English at Birkbeck, University of London.
