The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

by Lauren Berlant

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The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant's groundbreaking "national sentimentality" project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural "intimate public" in the United States, a "women's culture" distinguished by a view that women inevitably have something in common and are in need of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822342022

ISBN13:9780822342021

Release Date:March 2008

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

American Literature Criticism & Theory Feminist Theory Gender Studies History & Criticism Literary Theory Literature Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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