Masquerade And Gender
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Masquerade And Gender
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Author : Catherine Craft-Fairchild
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11
Masquerade And Gender written by Catherine Craft-Fairchild and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Terry Castle's recent study of masquerade follows Bakhtin's analysis of the carnivalesque to conclude that, for women, masquerade offered exciting possibilities for social and sexual freedom. Castle's interpretation conforms to the fears expressed by male writers during the period&—Addison, Steele, and Fielding all insisted that masquerade allowed women to usurp the privileges of men. Female authors, however, often mistrusted these claims, perceiving that masquerade's apparent freedoms were frequently nothing more than sophisticated forms of oppression. Catherine Craft-Fairchild's work provides a useful corrective to Castle's treatment of masquerade. She argues that, in fictions by Aphra Behn, Mary Davys, Eliza Haywood, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Frances Burney, masquerade is double-sided. It is represented in some cases as a disempowering capitulation to patriarchal strictures that posit female subordination. Often within the same text, however, masquerade is also depicted as an empowering defiance of the dominant norms for female behavior. Heroines who attempt to separate themselves from the image of womanhood they consciously construct escape victimization. In both cases, masquerade is the condition of femininity: gender in the woman's novel is constructed rather than essential. Craft-Fairchild examines the guises in which womanhood appears, analyzing the ways in which women writers both construct and deconstruct eighteenth-century cultural conceptions of femininity. She offers a careful and engaging textual analysis of both canonical and noncanonical eighteenth-century texts, thereby setting lesser-read fictions into a critical dialogue with more widely known novels. Detailed readings are informed throughout by the ideas of current feminist theorists, including Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Mary Ann Doane, and Kaja Silverman. Instead of assuming that fictions about women were based on biological fact, Craft-Fairchild stresses the opposite: the domestic novel itself constructs the domestic woman.
Masquerade And Identities
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Author : Efrat Tseëlon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-08-29
Masquerade And Identities written by Efrat Tseëlon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-29 with Performing Arts categories.
Masquerade, both literal and metaphorical, is now a central concept on many disciplines. This timely volume explores and revisits the role of disguise in constructing, expressing and representing marginalised identities, and in undermining easy distinctions between 'true' identity and artifice. The book is interdisciplinary in approach, spanning a diverse range of cultures and narrative voices. It provides provocative and nuanced ways of thinking about masquerade as a tool for construction, and a tool for critique. The essays interrogate such themes as: *mask and carnival *fetish fashion *stigma of illegitimacy *femininity as masquerade *lesbian masks *cross-dressing in Jewish folk theatre *the mask in seventeenth and eighteenth century London and nineteenth century France *the voice as mask.
Masquerade And Identities
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Author : Efrat Tseëlon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Masquerade And Identities written by Efrat Tseëlon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Disguise categories.
Monsieur D Eon Is A Woman
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Author : Gary Kates
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2001-09-21
Monsieur D Eon Is A Woman written by Gary Kates and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"A fascinating book. Monsieur d'Eon Is a Woman is instructive and a delight to read all at the same time."—Quentin Crisp Born in 1728, French aristocrat Charles d'Eon de Beaumont had served his country as a diplomat, soldier, and spy for fifteen years when rumors that he was a woman began to circulate in the courts of Europe. D'Eon denied nothing and was finally compelled by Louis XVI to give up male attire and live as a woman, something d'Eon did without complaint for the next three decades. Although celebrated as one of the century's most remarkable women, d'Eon was revealed, after his death in 1810, to have been unambiguously male. Gary Kates's acclaimed biography of d'Eon recreates eighteenth-century European society in brilliant detail and offers a compelling portrait of an individual who challenged its conventions about gender and identity.
Masquerade And Femininity
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Author : Urszula Chowaniec
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-03-26
Masquerade And Femininity written by Urszula Chowaniec and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Masquerade and Femininity: Essays on Russian and Polish Women Writers introduces the reader to the diversity of women’s writing in Poland and Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries in the light of the notion of masquerade. The present articles scrutinize particular works by women writers (Nadezhda Dmitrievna Khvoshchinskaia, Irina Odoevtseva, Vera Pavlova, Narcyza Żmichowska, Maria Komornicka, Irena Krzywicka and others) and the strategies of masquerading female experience. Taken together, the articles draw attention to the feeling of an inexpressible gap between the living body (and its everyday life experience of pain and suffering or happiness and pleasure) and the culturally constructed, powerfully imposed code of expression that readily makes use of various masks, guises and acts of pretending, applied especially cleverly in literary works. The concept of masquerade illuminates the complexity of what we call “femininity” by combining two sides of the divide: the real feelings and the constructed expressions. This volume uses both feminist and non-feminist approaches to women’s writing and sheds new light on the themes of femininity, woman’s identity, experience, masks, body, gender relations, nature, culture and authorship. Masquerade and Femininity brings together East European literary studies and gender studies, offering a comparative perspective on literature, literary theory and cultural phenomena in Poland and Russia, and featuring a range of both eastern European and western scholars. In its pages, the reader is invited to move beyond Russian literature and language into a dialogic approach between Slavic literatures. This book will also contribute to filling the comparative gap which is still relatively unexplored not only with regard to the application of western scholarship to East European studies, but also with regard to the dialogue between Russian and Polish scholarship.
Mae West S Ultrafeminine Persona
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Author : Julia Houck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Mae West S Ultrafeminine Persona written by Julia Houck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
Psychoanalyses Feminisms
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Author : Peter L. Rudnytsky
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Psychoanalyses Feminisms written by Peter L. Rudnytsky and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Psychology categories.
Brings together 12 provocative and iconoclastic contributions by leading scholars and new voices, probing the complementary yet contested relations between various forms of contemporary psychoanalysis and feminism. Contributors use and interrogate Freud, Lacan, Klein, and Jessica Benjamin, as well as object-relations theory, self psychology, and Horneyan theory, as they discuss the work of such writers as D. H. Lawrence, Emily Bronte, and Kathy Acker. Material stems from an April 1994 conference held at the University of Florida.
Natural Masques
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Author : Jill Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1995
Natural Masques written by Jill Campbell and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.
Campbell draws on recent work that sees the eighteenth century as a crucial moment in the history of sexuality and gender, and she critiques new treatments of the novel's function in defining domestic femininity
Gender And The Fictions Of The Public Sphere 1690 1755
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Author : Anthony Pollock
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-03-17
Gender And The Fictions Of The Public Sphere 1690 1755 written by Anthony Pollock and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Challenging the longstanding interpretation of the early English public sphere as polite, inclusive, and egalitarian this book re-interprets key texts by representative male authors from the period—Addison, Steele, Shaftesbury, and Richardson—as reactionary responses to the widely-consumed and surprisingly subversive work of women writers such as Mary Astell, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood, whose political and journalistic texts have up until now received little scholarly consideration. By analyzing a wide range of materials produced between the 1690s to the 1750s, Pollock exposes a literary marketplace characterized less by cool rational discourse and genial consensus than by vehement contestation and struggles for cultural authority, particularly in debates concerning the proper extent of women’s participation in English public life. Utilizing innovative methods of research and analysis the book reveals that even at its moment of inception, there was an immanent critique of the early liberal public sphere being articulated by women writers who were keenly aware of the hierarchies and techniques of exclusion that contradicted their culture’s oft-repeated appeals to the principles of equality and universality.
The Aftermath Of Feminism
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Author : Angela McRobbie
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2009
The Aftermath Of Feminism written by Angela McRobbie and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Social Science categories.
In this trenchant inquiry into the state of feminism, Angela McRobbie breaks open the politics of sexual equality and 'affirmative feminism' and sets down a new theory of gender power. Challenging the most basic assumptions of the 'end' of feminism, this book argues that invidious forms of gender re-stabilisation are being re-established. Consumer and popular culture encroach on the terrain of so-called female freedom, appearing supportive of female success, yet tying women into new post-feminist neurotic dependencies. With a scathing critique of 'women's empowerment', McRobbie has developed a distinctive feminist analysis that she uses to examine socio-cultural phenomena embedded in contemporary women's lives: from fashion photography and the television 'make-over' genre to eating disorders, body anxiety and 'illegible rage'. A turning point in feminist theory, The Aftermath of Feminism will set a new agenda for gender studies and cultural studies.