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What does a woman want? : reading and sexual difference
- Title
- What does a woman want? : reading and sexual difference / Shoshana Felman.
- Author
- Felman, Shoshana.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PN98.W64 F32 1993 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- vi, 178 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Examines the question ("what does a woman want?") through close readings of autobiographical texts by Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Adrienne Rich, Sigmund Freud, and Honore' de Balzac.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-168) and index.
- Contents
- 1. What does a woman want? The question of autobiography and the bond of reading (Postface) -- 2. Women and madness: the critical phallacy (Balzac, "Adieu") -- 3. Textuality and the riddle of bisexuality (Balzac, "The girl with the golden eyes") -- 4. Competing pregnancies: the dream from which psychoanalysis proceeds (Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams) -- 5. With whom do you believe your lot Is cast? Woolf, de Beauvoir, rich, and the struggle for autobiography (Afterword).
- ISBN
- 080184617X
- 9780801846175
- 080184620X
- 9780801846205
- LCCN
- 92047484
- OCLC
- ocm27377523
- 27377523
- SCSB-2000335
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library