Thinking Through the Body

Author: Jane Gallop
ISBN: 0231066112

From one of our most outspoken feminist critics, this collection explores various ways in which the body can be rethought of as a site of knowledge rather than as a medium to move beyond or dominate. Moving between a theoretical and confessional stance, Gallop explores Sade's relation to mothers both in his novels and his life; Barthe's The Pleasure of the Text; Freud's work, read not as a psychological text but as a literary endeavor and from a woman's point of view; and Luce Irigarary's famous This Sex Which Is Not One.

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publish Date: 1990-06-01

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Feminist, Literary Criticism / American / Hispanic American, Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Gender Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Psychology/Emotional Health)