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What Does a Woman Want?: Reading and Sexual Difference

By Shoshana Felman

Book information

Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Year
1993
ISBN
9780801846205
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7400183 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
184\192
Time added
2021-08-04 17:31:14

Description

'What does a woman want?'—the question Freud famously formulated in a letter to Marie Bonaparte—is a quintessentially male question that arises from women's resistance to their place in a patriarchal society. But what might it mean, asks Shoshana Felman, for a woman to reclaim this question as her own? Can this question engender, through the literary or the psychoanalytic work, a woman's voice as its speaking subject? Felman explores these questions through close readings of autobiographical texts by Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, and Adrienne Rich which attempt to redefine women as the subject of their own desire.

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