1st Edition

(Un)like Subjects Women, Theory, Fiction

By Gerardine Meaney Copyright 1993
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by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

What is the relationship between feminist critical theory and literature? This book deals with the relationship between women and writing, mothers and daughters, the maternal and history. It addresses the questions about language, writing and the relations between women which have preoccupied the three most influential French feminists and three important contemporary British women... Read more

Introduction  1. Between the Mother and the Medusa  2. The Mother as Language, Language as Mother  3. History and Women’s Time  4. (Un)Like Subjects  5. Unknowing the True-Real  6. The Abject and the Absence of the Ideal.  Conclusion.  Appendix. Julia Kristeva: A Chronology of Cited Texts

Biography

Gerardine Meaney