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| The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race, and Gender | | | Author: | Barbara Johnson | | ISBN: | 0674001915 | | Format: | Handover | | Publish Date: | June, 2005 | | |  |  |  | | | | | | | Book Review | | | |
The New York Times Book Review, Brooke Allen
...contains first-rate essays on the Romantic poet Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and on female muteness as a poetic ideal...
Book Description
Employing surprising juxtapositions, The Feminist Difference looks at fiction by black writers from a feminist/psychoanalytic perspective; at poetry from Phyllis Wheatley to Baudelaire and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore; and at feminism and law, particularly in the work of Patricia Williams and the late Mary Joe Frug. Toni Morrison and Sigmund Freud, John Keats and Jane Campion, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nella Larson and Heinz Kohut are among the many occasions for Johnson's rich, stimulating, unfailingly close reading of moments at which feminism seems to founder in its own contradictions -- moments that reemerge here as sources of a revitalized critical awareness.
The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race, and Gender FROM THE PUBLISHER Employing surprising juxtapositions, The Feminist Difference looks at fiction by black writers from a feminist/psychoanalytic perspective; at poetry from Phyllis Wheatley to Baudelaire and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore; and at feminism and law, particularly in the work of Patricia Williams and the late Mary Joe Frug. Toni Morrison and Sigmund Freud, John Keats and Jane Campion, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nella Larson and Heinz Kohut are among the many occasions for Johnson's rich, stimulating, unfailingly close reading of moments at which feminism seems to founder in its own contradictions -- moments that reemerge here as sources of a revitalized critical awareness.
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