Introducing Postfeminism

A title in the INTRODUCING series, formally published under the BEGINNERS series. This volume outlines key areas of post-feminist thinking, including psychoanalysis, postmodernism, cyberfeminism, post-colonialism, queer theory, art and popular culture, and covers the main feminist theorists. Cover......Page 1 Title Page ......Page 3 Copyright ......Page 4 What is Postfeminism?......Page 5 The Origins of Postfeminism......Page 6 French Feminisms......Page 7 féministes révoiutionnaires......Page 10 Essentialism......Page 14 The Problem of Humanism......Page 15 The po et psych......Page 16 Freudian Psychoanalysis......Page 17 What is Hysteria......Page 18 The Case of Anna O.......Page 19 Breuer's Discovery: The Talking Cure......Page 20 Sexuality and the Unconscious......Page 21 The Story of Sexuality......Page 22 The Oedipus Complex......Page 23 Difference and Penis Envy......Page 24 The Mother's Body......Page 28 Object Relations......Page 30 Conflict with Anna Freud......Page 31 The Womanly Masquerade......Page 32 Linguistic Difference......Page 34 Structuralism......Page 36 Binary Oppositions......Page 37 A Linguistic Model of Psychoanalysis......Page 38 Freud's Psycho-Dynamic Model......Page 39 The Ego......Page 40 The Super-Ego......Page 41 The Imaginary and the Real......Page 42 The Mirror Phase: the Ego Ideal......Page 43 The Symbolic Order......Page 44 The Phallus and Feminist Criticism......Page 46 Logocentrism and Deconstruction......Page 48 Speech, Writing and Différance......Page 50 Phallogocentrism......Page 51 Writing: écriture féminine......Page 52 Sorties......Page 54 The Imaginary......Page 55 Feminine Jouissance......Page 56 Irigaray's Critique of Freudian Psychoanalysis......Page 58 Irigaray's Critique of Lacanian Psychoanalysis......Page 60 Kristeva and Feminism......Page 62 Kristeva's Semiotic......Page 64 The Chora......Page 65 The Thetic and the Symbolic......Page 66 Bodily Horror and Abjection......Page 68 French Versus Anglo-American Feminism......Page 70 Challenges within Anti-Essentialism......Page 71 Decoding Popular Culture......Page 74 Advertising the Body......Page 76 The Body and the Gaze......Page 78 Romantic Fiction and Pornography......Page 83 Feminists Against Pornography......Page 84 Feminists Against Censorship......Page 85 Libertine Feminists......Page 86 Postmodernism and Postfeminism ......Page 87 What is Postmodernism?......Page 88 What Makes Science Legitimate?......Page 89 Knowledge as Techno-Consumerism......Page 90 Feminism and Postmodernism......Page 91 A Theory of Hyperreality......Page 92 Pastiche and Parody......Page 94 The Genealogy of Power......Page 96 The Panopticon......Page 98 On Positive Sexuality: Scientia Sexualis......Page 99 Confession is Good For You......Page 100 Feminist Critiques of Foucault......Page 101 Gynesis......Page 102 Psychoanalysis and Lesbianism......Page 103 Lesbianism and Feminism......Page 104 Lesbianism and Irigaray......Page 105 Queer Theory......Page 106 Plural Sexual Practices......Page 108 Performative Identification......Page 109 Allo- and Auto-Identification......Page 110 Deconstructing Derrida......Page 111 Deconstructing the Hymen......Page 112 The Questioning Woman......Page 113 Postcolonial or Subaltern Muteness......Page 114 Who Speaks in Multiculturalism?......Page 116 Race and Psychoanalysis......Page 117 Race, Feminism and Psychoanalysis......Page 118 Postmodernism and Black Experience......Page 120 Orientalism......Page 122 Feminism and Moral Philosophy......Page 124 Traditional Ethical Philosophy......Page 125 Brief Introduction to Virtue Theory......Page 126 The Existentialists......Page 128 Virtue Theorists......Page 131 Genetic Engineering and Ethics......Page 138 Cyberfeminism......Page 140 Versus Marxism, Psychoanalysis and . . .......Page 142 . . . feminism......Page 143 The Cyborg Self......Page 144 Postfeminism as Cyber-virus......Page 145 Feminist Cyberpunk......Page 146 Postfeminism and Film Theory......Page 147 The Cinematic Gaze......Page 150 Postfeminism and Dance......Page 153 Psychoanalysis and Art Criticism......Page 154 The Maternal in Art......Page 156 Psychoanalysis and the Maternal......Page 157 Lacan's Pre-Linguistic Maternal......Page 158 Kristeva's Semiotic Maternal......Page 159 A Criticism of Kristeva......Page 160 Art and the Maternal......Page 161 Postfeminist Art Criticism......Page 164 From Avantgarde to Postmodern Art......Page 165 Two Views of Avantgardism......Page 166 Postmodern Artists......Page 168 Postfeminism into the Future......Page 172 Further Reading......Page 174 Index......Page 177 Back Cover ......Page 180 "Introducing Postfeminism traces the effect of French feminist theory on contemporary gender politics and culture, and describes how postfeminist theorists have drawn from a range of discourses including psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, postmodernism and postcolonialism to develop our understanding of the feminine"--BOOKJACKET Including sections on psychoanalysis, postmodernism, cyberfeminism, postcolonialism, queer theory, art and popular culture, this introduction to postfeminism also covers the key figures in postfeminine thinking - Camilia Paglia, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Julia Kristeva and Donna Haraway In style typical of this series Introducing Postfeminism uses text and integrated illustration to trace the effect of French feminist theory on contemporary gender, politics and culture.