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Women Of Covenant: The Story Of Relief Society By Jill Mulvay Derr, Janath Russell Cannon And Maureen Ursenbach Beecher; Women And Authority: Re-Emerging Mormon Feminism Edited By Maxine Hanks; Natural Allies: Women's Associations In American History By Anne Firor Scott, Mary Stovall Richards
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Desire, Duplicity And Narratology: Boris Vian's L 'Ecume Des Jours, Charles J. Stivale
Desire, Duplicity And Narratology: Boris Vian's L 'Ecume Des Jours, Charles J. Stivale
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In this examination of Boris Vian's L'Ecume des jours, I call into question the masculinist resistance to criticism of Vian and his works through a critical counter-resistance from a feminist narratological perspective. In order to examine the implications of "narrative desire" for understanding textual and sexual difference, I argue for a narratology that develops the concept of textual "seduction" as a question of narrative duplicity. I undertake this "re-reading" not merely from the perspective of an "ideological unmasking," but also to suggest the possibility of a positive hermeneutic, or more precisely, the limits of such a move given inherent …
Feminism And Islamic Tradition, Winifred Woodhull
Feminism And Islamic Tradition, Winifred Woodhull
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
"Feminism and Islamic Tradition" explores the territory mapped by Fatima Mernissi in Sultanes oublées (1990) and Le Harem politique: Le Prophète et les femmes (1987) in relation to that charted by Assia Djebar in her latest novel Loin de Médine (1991). The aim is to see why Maghrebian feminists as different as Mernissi and Djebar—a liberal democratic sociologist and a postmodern writer—have begun to move into Arab-Islamic cultural-political spaces which, until recently, have been occupied mainly by various Islamic fundamentalist factions and other right-wing groups such as conservative nationalists in the Maghreb. The essay delineates the change between these writers' …
Private Life And Collective Experience In Quebec: The Autobiographical Project Of France Théoret, Mary Jean Green
Private Life And Collective Experience In Quebec: The Autobiographical Project Of France Théoret, Mary Jean Green
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In her study of women's autobiographical writing, Carolyn Heilbrun contends that women's authorship has been most hindered by the lack of narrative structures adequate to the telling of women's experience. She further suggests that female narrative will be found as women talk together, exchange stories, and move toward a collective understanding of self. In recent years, the interplay of women's voices has assumed new importance in women's writing, and specifically in women's life/writing in French. Perhaps beginning with Simone de Beauvoir's feminist classic, The Second Sex, where the words of hundreds of other women are woven into the text …