Title:
The Female body in western culture : contemporary perspectives
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Susan Rubin Suleiman.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986.
Physical Description:
ix, 389 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780674298705
9780674298712
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographies.
Added Author:
Contents:
(Re)writing the body : the politics and poetics of female eroticism / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- Somagrams of Gertrude Stein / Catharine R. Stimpson -- In praise of the ear (Gloss's glosses) / Thomas G. Pavel -- Dangling virgins : myth, ritual, and the place of women in ancient Greece / Eva Cantarella -- Speaking silences : women's suicide / Margaret Higonnet -- Death sentences : writing couples and ideology / Alice Jardin -- Stabat master / Julia Kristeva -- Matrix of war : mothers and heroes / Nancy Huston -- Rest cure : repetition or resolution of Victorian women's conflicts? / Ellen L. Bassuk -- Clinical eye : medical discourses in the "woman's film" of the 1940s / Mary Ann Doane -- Interpreting anorexia nervosa / Noelle Caskey -- Virgin's one bare breast : female nudity and religious meaning in Tuscan early Renaissance culture / Margaret R. Miles -- "This heraldry in Lucrece' face" / Nancy J. Vickers -- Edgar Degas and the representation of the female body / Carol M. Armstrong -- Sexuality at a loss : the films of F.W. Murnau / Janet Bergstrom -- Ladies shot and painted : female embodiment in surrealist art / Mary Ann Caws -- Jean Rhys : poses of a woman as guest / Alicia Borinsky -- Woman as a semiotic object / Christine Brooke-Rose -- Sexuality, sin, and sorrow : the emergence of female character (a reading of Genesis 1-3) / Mieke Bal -- Politics of women's bodies : reflections on Plato / Monique Canto -- Rereading as a woman : the body in practice / Nancy K. Miller -- Female fetishism : the case of George Sand / Naomi Schor -- Huysmans : writing against (female) nature / Charles Bernheimer.