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The gender of modernity / / Rita Felski



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Autore: Felski Rita <1956-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The gender of modernity / / Rita Felski Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-26338-3
0-674-03679-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814229103321
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