Technologies of gender : essays on theory, film, and fiction /

De Lauretis, Teresa

Technologies of gender : essays on theory, film, and fiction / Teresa de Lauretis - [London] : Macmillan Press, [1987] - xi, 151 p. ; 24 cm - Language, discourse, society . - Language, discourse, society .

Includes Index

The technology of gender -- The violence of rhetoric: considerations of representation and gender -- Gaudy rose: eco and narcissism -- Calvino and the Amazons: reading the (post)modern text -- Gramsci notwithstanding, or, the left hand of history -- Fellini's 9 1/2 -- Strategies of coherence: narrative cinema, feminist poetics, and Yvonne Rainer -- Rethinking women's cinema: aesthetics and feminist theory

A collection of essays concerning the feminist perspective in relation to specific works of literature, criticism and film. Each essay provides an opportunity for the author to articulate a theoretical problem or engage in a debate about feminism and the limitations of "sexual difference".

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Women in motion pictures
Feminism and literature
Women in moving-pictures.
Literature--History and criticism
Women in literature.
Film history, theory & criticism
Literary studies: general
Feminism & feminist theory