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The psyche of feminism : Sand, Colette, Sarraute

Title: The psyche of feminism : Sand, Colette, Sarraute / Catherine M. Peebles.
Author: Peebles, Catherine M., 1968-
Publication: West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©2004.

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Description

xv, 232 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

The Psyche of Feminism argues that a feminist ethics, in order to be both feminist and ethical, needs to embrace psychoanalysis. After reviewing the relation between feminism and psychoanalysis and arguing for the centrality of psychoanalysis to feminist thought, the study offers an analysis of two attempts by George Sand to reimagine the sexual relationship (Letters to Marcie, Lelia), where the emphasis is on political injustice and the impossibility of women's desires. Moving from rights and desires to the question of pleasures, Peebles then takes up a relatively little-read work by Colette, The Pure and the Impure, in which the narrator suggests that pleasure and its corporeal language hold the key to any understanding of masculinity and femininity. We are then led to the risky question of neutrality put forward by Nathalie Sarraute ( You Don't Love Yourself ), whose work forces a psychoanaÂlytic feminism to face the question: what if sexual difference itself is a ruse? Does the notion of a human neutrality condemn us either to a bygone humanism or to psychoÂsis? The final chapter of the work synthesizes these analyses, and argues for a fundamental feminist rethinking of the ideal of equality, an ideal that figures significantly and uneasily in each of the works. -- Amazon.com.

Series Statement

Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 28

Uniform Title

Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 28.

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Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Note

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Binghamton University, State University of New York, 1999) presented under the title: Woman before love.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-225) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Psychoanalytics Feminism: Sexual Difference and Another Love -- Ch. 1. George Sand and the Impossible Woman -- Ch. 2. What Does a Woman Enjoy? Colette's Le pur et l'impur -- Ch. 3. Nathalie Sarraute: After the Feminine Subject -- Conclusion: The Psyche of Feminism.

ISBN

1557533296
9781557533296

LCCN

2003019825

OCLC

ocm53006847
53006847
SCSB-9130492

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library