What Does a Woman Want?: Reading and Sexual Difference

by Shoshana Felman and Professor Shoshana Felman

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'What does a woman want?'--the question Freud famously formulated in a letter to Marie Bonaparte--is a quintessentially male question that arises from women's resistance to their place in a patriarchal society. But what might it mean, asks Shoshana Felman, for a woman to reclaim this question as her own? Can this question engender, through the literary or the psychoanalytic work, a woman's voice as its speaking subject? Felman explores these questions...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:080184620X

ISBN13:9780801846205

Release Date:October 1993

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:184 Pages

Weight:0.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"

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