The gender of modernity / / Rita Felski
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| Autore: |
Felski Rita <1956->
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| Titolo: |
The gender of modernity / / Rita Felski
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 1995 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306 |
| Soggetto topico: | Feminist theory |
| Civilization, Modern - 19th century | |
| Civilization, Modern - 20th century | |
| Women and literature | |
| Women in literature | |
| Feminist criticism | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-240) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction - myths of the modern; modernity and feminism; on nostalgia - the prehistoric woman; imagined pleasures - the erotics and aesthetics of consumption; masking masculinity - the feminization of writing; love, God, and the Orient - reading the popular sublime; visions of the new - feminist discourses of evolution and revolution; the art of perversion - female sadists and male cyborgs; afterword - rewriting the modern. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In an exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, this work challenges conventional male-centred theories of modernity. It examines the gendered meanings of such notions as nostalgia, consumption, feminine writing, the popular sublime, evolution, revolution and perversion. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The gender of modernity |
| ISBN: | 0-674-26338-3 |
| 0-674-03679-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814229103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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