Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary

Written for readers with little knowledge of the subject,Sexual/Textual Politicsnevertheless makes its own intervention into key debates, arguing provocatively for a commitedly political and theoretical criticism as against merely textual or apolitical approaches.

General Editor's Preface

xi

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgements

xvii

A Note on the Text

xix

Introduction: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Feminist readings of Woolf

1

(1)

The rejection of Woolf

2

(7)

Rescuing Woolf for feminist politics: some points towards an alternative reading

9

(12)

PART I Anglo-American feminist criticism

Two feminist classics

21

(20)

Kate Millett

24

(7)

Mary Ellmann

31

(10)

`Images of Women' criticism

41

(8)

Women writing and writing about women

49

(20)

Towards a woman-centred perspective

49

(3)

`Literary Women'

52

(2)

`A Literature of Their Own'

54

(2)

`The Madwoman in the Attic'

56

(13)

Theoretical reflections

69

(20)

Annette Kolodny

69

(5)

Elaine Showalter

74

(5)

Myra Jehlen

79

(10)

PART II French feminist theory

From Simone de Beauvoir to Jacques Lacan

89

(11)

Simone de Beauvoir and Marxist feminism

89

(4)

French feminism after 1968

93

(4)

Jacques Lacan

97

(3)

Helene Cixous: an imaginary utopia

100

(26)

Patriarchal binary thought

102

(1)

Difference

103

(3)

Ecriture feminine 1) masculinity, femininity, bisexuality

106

(2)

The gift and the proper

108

(4)

Ecriture feminine 2) the source and the voice

112

(5)

Imaginary contradictions

117

(2)

Power, ideology, politics

119

(7)

Patriarchal reflections: Luce Irigaray's looking-glass

126

(23)

Speculum

128

(3)

Specul(ariz)ation and mimeticism

131

(11)

Freud

131

(4)

Mysticism

135

(2)

The inexorable logic of the Same

137

(5)

Womanspeak: a tale told by an idiot?

142

(4)

Idealism and ahistoricism

146

(3)

Marginality and subversion: Julia Kristeva

149

(24)

L'Etrangere

149

(1)

Kristeva and Anglo-American feminist linguistics

150

(10)

Sex differences in language use

152

(3)

Sexism in language

155

(5)

Language, femininity, revolution

160

(13)

The acquisition of language

160

(2)

Femininity as marginality

162

(4)

Feminism, Marxism, anarchism

166

(7)

Afterword

173

(13)

Notes

186

(11)

References

197

(14)

Index

211

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