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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Buhle, Mari Jo, 1943- Feminism and its discontents. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998 (OCoLC)605471290 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mari Jo Buhle |
| ISBN: | 0674298683 9780674298682 |
| OCLC Number: | 37854173 |
| Description: | 432 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Feminism, Freudianism, and female subjectivity -- Dissent in Freud's ranks -- Culture and feminine personality -- Momism and the flight from manhood -- Ladies in the dark -- Feminists versus Freud -- Feminine self-in-relation -- The crisis in patriarchal authority -- In the age of the vanishing subject. |
| Responsibility: | Mari Jo Buhle. |
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[Buhle] bases her intriguing and expansive historical study on the premise that feminism and psychoanalytic theory, each in its own way concerned with understanding the 'self, ' developed in continuous dialogue with each other. The author's captivating, energetic writing style reflects the often spirited, surprisingly tenacious relationship of these two theories--from their emergence as 'unlikely bedpartners of Modernism'; through the shifting intellectual patterns of this century and the insidious mother-blaming of the '50s; to the contemporary postmodern paradigm of subjectivity and selfhood. Combining thorough research and incisive analysis, Buhle examines the ongoing discourse among Freudian, new-Freudian, and feminist theorists throughout the century as well as the endless fascination of popular culture with the questions of biology versus culture, difference versus equality. A vital addition to both women's studies and psychology collections.--Grace Fill "Booklist " Read more...
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- Psychoanalysis and feminism.
- Women -- psychology.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Feminism.
- Psychoanalyse.
- Feminisme.
