Fetishism and Fatal Women: Gender, Power and Reflexive Discourse by Labovitz, Esther

Fetishism and Fatal Women: Gender, Power and Reflexive Discourse (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820417837)

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Fetishism and Fatal Women: Gender, Power and Reflexive Discourse by Labovitz, Esther

Fetishism and Fatal Women: Gender, Power and Reflexive Discourse

$59.95
Fetishism and Fatal Women: Gender, Power and Reflexive Discourse by Labovitz, Esther

Fetishism and Fatal Women: Gender, Power and Reflexive Discourse

$59.95
Format: Hardcover
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Fetishism and Fatal Women locates the functional value of the feminine, principally within the discourse of male authors. The thematic focus is on the fetishized image of Salome in late 19th and early 20th-century British and Continental literature. Part one offers a theoretical look at the polarization and domination of the feminine image within masculine rhetoric. Subsequent chapters include close readings of J.K. Huysmans' A Rebours, Oscar Wilde'sSalome, selected works of William Butler Yeats, and selected visual images. As these readings are linked to current theory, Fetishism and Fatal Women reviews the dubious genealogy which restricts femininity in general and speculates on how to demystify gender restraints.

Author: Esther Labovitz,Linda Saladin
ISBN-10: 0820417831
ISBN-13: 9780820417837
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 02/01/1994
Pages: 250
Format: Hardcover
By Esther Labovitz
By Esther Labovitz
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The Author: Linda A. Saladin is an associate professor of English at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. She is also Director of the Interdepartmental Certificate Program in Critical Theory. She received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Irvine.

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