At virtually the same time as the male hegemony of the modernist literary canon was being valorised by some writers, a number of feminist writers and literary critics (in both the US and Europe) were establishing a range of feminist interventionist strategies. The growth of the Women’s Movement and Women’s Studies in the US and […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
FEMINIST METHODS EVOLVE
In the rest of the chapter, feminist methods are described in five sections: on two early sciolisms, on Sandra Harding’s trivium, on Liz Stanley’s contribution, and on male hysteria. There were two sciolisms in the early days. two early sciolisms A sciolism is a superficial pretension to knowledge, a sciolist is someone who produces such […]
ACT II:THE WILLIAM KENNEDY SMITH TRIAL:WHEREIN THE MASTER VISITS THE SLAVE QUARTERS
White men have said over and over—and we have believed it because it was repeated so often—that not only was there no such thing as a chaste Negro woman—but that a Negro woman could not be assaulted, that it was never against her will. —Jessie Daniel Ames44 The historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall has called the […]
POST-HUMAN(IST) FEMININITY?
The optimism of imaginative writers is countered to some extent by a more millennarial and troubling vision of gender and its future. A 1999 cover of the New Yorker magazine, in an issue devoted to ‘Style’ at the millennium captures this well. It depicts a robot undergoing what seems to be a complete servicing (Roberts […]
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Conclusions: The Materialization of Violence
Mary Ann Doane points to the work of Annette Michelson and argues that the play of technological artifice, fear, and femininity moves feminist debates on representation beyond gender stereotyping and the “cinematic iconography of repression and desire” to a place where the feminized form is “the fantas — matic ground of cinema itself” (Doane 1990,166) […]
Beauty and the beast
The feminist scientist Donna Haraway has argued that science evolves through complex, historically specific storytelling practices rather than through a detached analysis of the ‘facts’. She has drawn attention to the political and economic interests that are reproduced by the narratives of science (Haraway 1991). The most powerful of these in relation to the wildlife […]
THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF THE ACADEMY:. MODERNISM AND THE ABSENCE OF GENDERED VOICES
What becomes apparent in reflecting on the theorists and critics of modernism and postmodernism is that there is an overwhelming monopolisation of the debate by male writers and an attendant marginalisation of feminist writers and issues within these debates. Examples of the absence or marginalisation of feminism’s contribution to modernism’s project, as Marshall (1994) notes, […]
Killing him softly
These coping mechanisms — or defense mechanisms — kill men a lot more softly than in the past. Fewer men die in coal mines, more die inside when a lifetime of doing everything he could to support a family leads to his income becoming an incentive for his wife to leave him When he sees […]
Mole nurturance
In almost every men’s group I have formed, men discuss problems they face at work — especially feelings of being unappreciated or criticized by bosses and colleagues. If we ask a man whether he has discussed this with his wife or woman friend, he usually says he has, but only superficially. Why? He says he […]