Sororophobia: Differences among Women in Literature and CultureOxford University Press, 28 de maig 1992 - 224 pàgines This book looks at how differences among women have been textually represented at a variety of historical moments and in a variety of cultural contexts, including Victorian mainstream fiction, African-American mulatto novels, late twentieth-century lesbian communities, and contemporary country music. Sororophobia designates the complex and shifting relations between women's attempts to identify with other women and their often simultaneous desire to establish and retain difference. Michie argues for the centrality to feminism of a paradigm that moves beyond celebrations of identity and sisterhood to a more nuanced notion of women's relations with other women which may include such uncomfortable concepts as envy, jealousy, and competition as well as more institutionalized ideas of difference such as race and class. Chapters on literature are interspersed by "inter-chapters" on the choreography of sameness and difference among women in popular culture. |
Continguts
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| 15 | |
Sexual and Class Duplicity in Sensation Fiction | 58 |
3 Writing Lesbian Difference | 101 |
Sexuality and Differentiation Among Black Women in Quicksand Passing and Sula | 137 |
The Other Woman in Feminist Theory | 175 |
Notes | 203 |
Credits | 209 |
Index | 211 |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Sororophobia: Differences Among Women in Literature and Culture Helena Michie Previsualització limitada - 1992 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
Adrienne Rich Angel Anne Audley becomes Branwell Brontë Carlyle Celia chapter Charlotte Clare color contrast culture D'Urbervilles Debi Thomas desire discourse Dorothea double East Lynne economy Eliot Emily erotic eroticism essay explicitly fantasy feelings feminism feminist figure French feminism Gallop gaze gender Goblin Goblin Market Hannah Helene Helga heroine heterosexual homosexuality husband identified identity idiom Irene Irene's Isabel Jane Jane Eyre Judds Kristeva Lady Audley's Secret Laura Lesbian Poetry lesbian-feminist lexicon look lovers Luce Irigaray Magdalen marriage metaphor Middlemarch mistress Morrison mother and daughter moves Naomi narrative Nel's Norah novel opposition perhaps plot poem political portrait position Quicksand race racial relation relationship role Rosamond Rubyfruit Jungle sadomasochism scene sensation novels sense sexual difference simultaneously sisterhood sisterly sisters sororophobic Spivak Stimpson's story structure suggests Sula Sula's takes Tess unitard Victorian voice wife woman word Wynonna
Passatges populars
Pàgina 36 - Laura.' up the garden, 'Did you miss me? Come and kiss me. Never mind my bruises, Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices Squeezed from goblin fruits for you, Goblin pulp and goblin dew. Eat me, drink me, love me ; Laura, make much of me: For your sake I have braved the glen And had to do with goblin merchant men.
Pàgina 57 - She does her business of delineating the surface of the lives of genteel English people curiously well; there is a Chinese fidelity, a miniature delicacy in the painting: she ruffles her reader by nothing vehement, disturbs him by nothing profound: the Passions are perfectly unknown to her; she rejects even a speaking acquaintance with that stormy Sisterhood...
Pàgina 43 - Well, I am sorry for Sir James. I thought it right to tell you, because you went on as you always do, never looking just where you are, and treading in the wrong place. You always see what nobody else sees; it is impossible to satisfy you; yet you never see what is quite plain. That's your way, Dodo.
Pàgina 83 - The spectral, half-compounded, aqueous light which pervaded the open mead impressed them with a feeling of isolation, as if they were Adam and Eve.
Pàgina 34 - One had a cat's face, One whisked a tail, One tramped at a rat's pace, One crawled like a snail, One like a wombat prowled obtuse and furry, One like a ratel tumbled hurry skurry.
Pàgina 37 - For there is no friend like a sister, In calm or stormy weather, To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands.
Pàgina 35 - Golden head by golden head, Like two pigeons in one nest Folded in each other's wings. They lay down in their curtained bed : Like two blossoms on one stem. Like two flakes of new-fall'n snow, Like two wands of ivory Tipped with gold for awful kings.
Pàgina 106 - Rich's paper is chiefly remembered for is her suggestion that all women exist along a 'lesbian continuum': I mean the term lesbian continuum to include a range - through each woman's life and throughout history - of woman-identified experience, not simply the fact that a woman has had or consciously desired genital sexual experience with another woman. If we expand it to include many more forms of primary intensity between and among women...
Pàgina 41 - Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters...
Referències a aquest llibre
The Erotics of Talk: Women's Writing and Feminist Paradigms Carla Kaplan Previsualització limitada - 1996 |