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- Psyche of Feminism: Sand, Colette, Sarraute
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: Purdue University Press
- Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
summary
The Psyche of Feminism argues that a feminist ethics, in order to be both feminist and ethical, needs to embrace psychoanalysis. After reviewing the relation between feminism and psychoanalysis and arguing for the centrality of psychoanalysis to feminist thought, the study offers an analysis of two attempts by George Sand to reimagine the sexual relationship (Letters to Marcie, Lelia), where the emphasis is on political injustice and the impossibility of women's desires. Moving from rights and desires to the question of pleasures, Peebles then takes up a relatively little-read work by Colette, The Pure and the Impure, in which the narrator suggests that pleasure and its corporeal language hold the key to any understanding of masculinity and femininity.
Table of Contents
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- List of Abbreviations
- p. viii
- Acknowledgments
- p. xv
- Conclusion-The Psyche of Feminism
- pp. 163-172
- Appendix-English Translations
- pp. 173-195
- Bibliography
- pp. 211-225
Additional Information
ISBN
9781612490892
Related ISBN(s)
9781557533296
MARC Record
OCLC
603906584
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No