The Female Genesis: Creativity, Self and Gender - Couverture rigide

Jouve, Nicole Ward

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 074561681X ISBN 13 : 9780745616810

Editeur : Polity Press, 1997

Synopsis

The Female Genesis Argues against fashionable trends in contemporary feminisms that wish to abandon a woman as a flawed and oppressive term, regarding masculinity and femininity as unwanted binaries that attempt to subvert gender as oppression. Full description

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"All too often French thinking loses body and complexity inEnglish, but with Nicole Ward Jouve′s criticism the effect ismagically quite the reverse. Here she analyses the genesis of texts– their mothering and fathering – and dares to differ from thosepostmodernists who want to deconstruct gender itself. FemaleGenesis is a moving, controversial and revealing book whichwill give anyone interested in contemporary debates about writingand gender food for thought." Lorna Sage, University of EastAnglia

"This book is ... full of risk–taking and unexpected, oftendazzling, turns and connections. It is both erudite and bold ... itis witty, self–aware and often ironic; sometimes it is lyrical andsensuous ... all of these essays ... are gems." Linda Anderson,University of Newcastle

"In her scintillating new collection, Nicole Ward Jouve writesagainst the grain of much recent feminist thinking in Europe andNorth America, yet she does so on behalf of a new inclusivefeminist awareness. Hers is one of those necessary critical voices.She speaks as a gendered autobiographical subject, yet addressesmen as well as women and reminds her readers at every turn of theircommon humanity. A wise and beautiful book." Malcolm Bowie, AllSouls College, Oxford

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Is creation male, as the Bible seems to suggest? Does creativityalways belong to the male element? Is there no female genesis? Thisexciting book argues against fashionable trends in contemporaryfeminisms that wish to abandon ′woman′ as a flawed and oppressiveterm, regarding masculinity and femininity as unwanted binariesthat attempt to subvert gender as oppression. Instead the authorargues for the need to revalue feminine origins, to make room forthe feminine element in creation and explore the predicament of thefemale creator.

Nicole Ward Jouve argues for a necessary relation to male andfemale, inside and outside, in the creative act and the formationof a creative sense of self. She sees both being engendered andengendering, with the attendant figures of the Mother and theFather, as part and parcel of the ways gender is experienced. Thebook explores these themes by drawing upon the work of writers inFrench and English, male and female, such as Balzac, Lawrence, deBeauvoir, Woolf, Carter, Roberts and Plath. The book takes stock ofboth French and Anglo–American– feminisms, and debates withpsychoanalysis as well as literature through figures such as Freud,Jung, Lacan, Winnicott and Milner.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 074561681X
• ISBN 13: 9780745616810
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272