1st Edition

Sex In The Head Visions of Femininity and Film in D.H. Lawrence

By Linda R. Williams Copyright 1993
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

In Sex in the Head , Linda Ruth Williams uses psychoanalysis and recent feminist film theory to analyze a network of ideas which link looking with sexuality and difference, in the work of a writer who disavowed, yet covertly enjoyed, the pleasures and power of vision. The book is a departure from the long history of feminist readings of Lawrence, in that it discusses his engagement with theories... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 The blindness of the seeing eye; Chapter 2 ‘… my eyes are like hooks …’; Chapter 3 Putting on his glory; Chapter 4 The pornographic gaze; Chapter 5 On being a girl;

Biography

Linda Ruth Williams is Professor in Film Studies at the University of Southampton, UK.