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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451255403321

Autore

MacCannell Juliet Flower <1943, >

Titolo

The regime of the brother : after the patriarchy / / Juliet Flower MacCannell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1991

ISBN

1-134-93782-2

1-134-93783-0

1-280-19360-3

0-203-32095-6

0-203-02184-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Opening out

Disciplina

305.42

Soggetti

Women - History - Modern period, 1600-

Social history

Women in literature

Feminist theory

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [184]-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series preface; Acknowledgements; Note on passages translated; Introduction; The primal scene of modernity; Modernity as the absence of the other: the general self; Egomimesis; Feminine Eros: from the bourgeois state to the nuclear state; The end(s) of love in the western world; The reconstruction of mothering; After the new Regime; Notes; Passages translated; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Regime of the Brother is one of the first attempts to challenge modernity on its own terms. Using the work of Lacan, Kristeva and Freud, Juliet MacCannell confronts the failure of modernity to bring about the social equality promised by the Enlightenment. On the verge of its destruction, the Patriarchy has reshaped itself into a new, and often more oppressive regime: that of the Brother. Examining a range of literary and social texts - from Rousseau's Confessions to Richardson's Clarissa and from Stendhal's De L'Amour to James's What



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