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Recovering women : feminisms and the representation of addiction

Author: Melissa Pearl Friedling
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000.
Series: Polemics series.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English
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"Recovering Women: Feminisms and the Representation of Addiction seeks to clarify the status of feminisms in contemporary culture and specify the problematics of feminist recovery rhetorics that respond to the representations of women in cultural practices. The female "addict" - in film, literature, art, and academics - emerges as the exigency to the question of feminism and lays bare the intersecting vectors of  Read more...
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Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Melissa Pearl Friedling
ISBN: 0813391407 9780813391403
OCLC Number: 42726085
Description: ix, 205 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1 Addiction, Rhetoric, and Feminism: The Ballad of (Hetero) Sexual Dependency 1 --
Addiction and the Question of Feminism 3 --
Performative Interpretations and Methodologies 6 --
Trajectory of the Texts: A Volume of Loss ... a Ballad of Love 12 --
2 Drew Barrymore's Coming of Age(ncy): The Performance of Addiction and the Challenge of Feminist Criticism 29 --
E.T.: Barrymore and the Extratextual 33 --
Dirty White Girl 35 --
Recovery Rhetoric of "Girl Talk": Barrymore and "Do Me" Feminism 45 --
3 Funny, She Doesn't Look Drew-ish: Jewish Addicts and the "Truth" of Recovery 59 --
(Re)covering the Jew-woman, "Fixing" the Jewish Feminist 61 --
Lydon's "Trip" Home: Difference in the Name of the Mother 64 --
Guilty Daughter's Rite: Leaving Mother's House on an Empty Stomach 68 --
Motherless Daughters: Homelessness and the Anxiety of Choice for "The Chosen" 71 --
A Kinder, Gentile, Derrida: Citing Differance, Curing the Jewish Woman's Addiction 75 --
4 Recovering the "Special Issue" of Feminist Art and Performance: Women, Children, and Lesbians Last 83 --
Theory, Practice, and the Generational Sex/Gender Divide 87 --
"Daughters of the ReVolution": V-Girls and the Performance of Re/covery 103 --
5 Passing, Queering, and Recovering: Feminist Psychoanalysis and the Performance of Plastic Surgery 115 --
Art of Plastic Surgery: Feminism, Identity, Psychoanalysis, and Bodies that Matter 124 --
Orlan: Synthetic Identity, Self-Naming, and the Politics of Passing 131 --
Feminist Psychoanalysis and Saint Orlan: The Academic Blind Spot 137 --
Eye Job to Eye Job: Orlan Meets Connie Chung 139 --
6 Nan Goldin's Retrospective and Recovery: Framing Feminism, AIDS, and Addiction 155 --
Retrospectives and the Institution 158 --
Frame Within a Frame 172 --
S(l)ide Show: AIDS, Feminism, and Performative Acts 179.
Series Title: Polemics series.
Responsibility: Melissa Pearl Friedling.
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"Recovering Women: Feminisms and the Representation of Addiction seeks to clarify the status of feminisms in contemporary culture and specify the problematics of feminist recovery rhetorics that respond to the representations of women in cultural practices. The female "addict" - in film, literature, art, and academics - emerges as the exigency to the question of feminism and lays bare the intersecting vectors of power that structure recovery."--BOOK JACKET.

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