Author: Threadgold, Terry ; & Cranny-Francis, Anne ; editors:
Title: Feminine / Masculine and Representation
Description: Sydney / London, Allen & Unwin, (1990). orig.wrappers. 21x14cm, xiii,306 pp. PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 13 papers. Includfes: The problematic of 'the feminine' in contem,porary French philosophy: Foucault & Iraigaray; Modernity, rationality & ' the masculine'; Inscriptions & body-maps: representations & the corporeal; The discursive construction of Christ's body in the later Middle Ages: resistance & autonomy; etc. ["'Feminine/Masculine and Representation' provides a much needed introduction to some challenging issues raised in debates within gender studies, critical theory and cultural studies. In analyzing cultural processes using a range of different methods, the essays in this collection focus on gender/sexuality, representation and cultural politics across a variety of media. This collection of essays makes an important contribution to debate on the role of representation in the social construction of the patriarchal gender order. It deals centrally with questions about sex and gender, subjectivity and signification. In her editor's introduction Terry Threadgold confronts the scepticism of those resistant to the challenge which poststructuralist semiotics ("that language stuff") poses to all branches of knowledge. She points out that these discourses about language, or semiosis, seem arcane only because they have not yet become part of everyday life, as have similar specialist discourses like economics, government, sociology..." - publisher's description].

Keywords: Gender, Critical Theory, Cultural Criticism, Masculinitt, Femininity, Sex Differences, , ,