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Ad Feminam Ser.: Refiguring the Father : New Feminist Readings of Patriarchy by Beth Kowaleski-Wallace (1989, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSouthern Illinois University Press
ISBN-100809315297
ISBN-139780809315291
eBay Product ID (ePID)492273
Product Key Features
Number of Pages344 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRefiguring the Father : New Feminist Readings of Patriarchy
SubjectFeminism & Feminist Theory, Feminist, Essays
Publication Year1989
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science, Literary Collections
AuthorBeth Kowaleski-Wallace
SeriesAd Feminam Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN89-006118
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Afterword byMiller, Nancy K.
Dewey Decimal810.9/3520431
SynopsisAn exciting investigation of the ways literary and cultural texts have not only shaped the difficult terms of the daughter-father relationship but also prescribed a role for fathers that is paradoxical and contradictory. These 15 essays seek to enter into a new dialogue with both the tenets of patriarchy and with the "initiating symbolic gestures" of feminist discourse that have helped to maintain the father's "voracious and hierarchical" position in western culture. The problem is not simply to change the focus of feminist inquiry from father-as-center to mother-as-center, but to reinvent the discourse of the father, to unsettle an oedipal dialectic that insists on revealing the father as the gaze, as bodilessness, or as the symbolic, and to develop a new dialectic that refuses to describe the father function as if it were univocal and ahistorical., An exciting investigation of the ways literary and cultural texts have not only shaped the difficult terms of the daughter-father relationship but also prescribed a role for fathers that is paradoxical and contradictory.These 15 essays seek to enter into a new dialogue with both the tenets of patriarchy and with the "initiating symbolic gestures" of feminist discourse that have helped to maintain the father s "voracious and hierarchical" position in western culture. The problem is not simply to change the focus of feminist inquiry from father-as-center to mother-as-center, but to reinvent the discourse of the father, to unsettle an oedipal dialectic that insists on revealing the father as the gaze, as bodilessness, or as the symbolic, and to develop a new dialectic that refuses to describe the father function as if it were univocal and ahistorical."
LC Classification NumberPS169.P36R44 1989
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