Mary Caputi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 461604 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mary Caputi |
| NOMBRES | Mary |
| APELLIDO | Caputi |
| FIRMA | CAPUTI M |
| AFILIACIONES | Department of Political Science, California State University, Long Beach, USA, |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Our Editorial Experience at Politics & Gender, 2016–19
I, Mary Caputi, was humbled and honored to be offered the editorship of Politics & Gender, a position that I filled between 2016–19. With my hard-working associate editors Sun Young Kwak, Steve Gonzales, and Timothy Kaufman-Osborn, we strove to build upon the journal’s already strong reputation as an agenda-setting academic publication that offers cutting-edge scholarship in all areas of gender studies. Because the relationship between “politics …
Slow Culture and the American Dream
Is the USA hospitable to the slow movement? The land of fast food, get-rich-quick schemes, and 24/7 news feeds? In Slow Culture and the American Dream: A Slow and Curvy Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century, Mary Caputi argues that the slow movement has much to teach the United States at this moment in time. Although slow philosophy is in many ways opposite to the prevalent American Dream, the current cultural setting demands that we heed its t…
"The Known Footsteps of My Mother"
This article analyzes Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet in terms of maternal themes, especially those central to French feminism. Drawing on Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection and the terrifying maternal abyss, it highlights the empty dark spaces that run throughout all four novels. The article focuses especially on the maternal abyss that informs Elena's relationship with her mother, Immacolata, a character whose backgrounding allows her to…
Teaching Marx & Critical Theory in the 21st Century
Teaching Marx and Critical Theory in the 21st Century
Voodoo, Tragedy, Desire
This essay examines Gayatri Spivak's concept of “the axiomatics of imperialism” in the context of the Haitian earthquake of 2010. It explores the problematic of offering aid to Haiti given that such benevolence lends support to the time-honored assumption that it is a benighted nation that cannot help itself, but remains in need of European and American sponsorship. The essay considers this problematic by first discussing an American-run, Christi…
The parergonal politics of Barack Obama
This article offers a Derridean analysis of Barack Obama’s statement that, as president, he would be willing to negotiate with political actors dubbed ‘terrorists’, ‘rogues’, ‘enemies’, or members of the ‘axis of evil’. The article argues that the Derridean concept of the ‘parergonal’ is useful, as is the Derridean distinction between hospitality and tolerance. This is because a parergonal approach to politics, evidenced in a willingness to liste…
National Identity in Contemporary Theory
This paper analyzes two psychoanalytic readings of national identity. It scrutinizes the work of Vamik Volkan and Julia Kristeva, both of whom explain the emotional needs which undergird this category. After exploring these approaches to national identity, approaches which rebuff the postmodern insistence on fluidity, the paper then considers some problems that inhere in too adamant a defense of the nation-state. It insists that, while national i…
Identity and Nonidentity in Aesthetic Theory
The Maternal Metaphor in Feminist Scholarship
Numerous schools of psychoanalytic thought inform contemporary feminist scholarship. This paper examines how two schools, object relations theory and work of Jacques Lacan, can be useful to the feminist enterprise. It focuses especially on the theme of the maternal: while the stated schools conceptualize this theme differently, both rely on the notion of an internalized maternal metaphor held within the child's unconscious. This internalized meta…
Beauvoir and the New Criticism
No abstract available for this article
Beauvoir and the new criticism
National Identity in Contemporary Theory
This paper analyzes two psychoanalytic readings of national identity. It scrutinizes the work of Vamik Volkan and Julia Kristeva, both of whom explain the emotional needs which undergird this category. After exploring these approaches to national identity, approaches which rebuff the postmodern insistence on fluidity, the paper then considers some problems that inhere in too adamant a defense of the nation-state. It insists that, while national i…
The Maternal Metaphor in Feminist Scholarship
Numerous schools of psychoanalytic thought inform contemporary feminist scholarship. This paper examines how two schools, object relations theory and work of Jacques Lacan, can be useful to the feminist enterprise. It focuses especially on the theme of the maternal: while the stated schools conceptualize this theme differently, both rely on the notion of an internalized maternal metaphor held within the child's unconscious. This internalized meta…
Our Editorial Experience at Politics & Gender, 2016–19
I, Mary Caputi, was humbled and honored to be offered the editorship of Politics & Gender, a position that I filled between 2016–19. With my hard-working associate editors Sun Young Kwak, Steve Gonzales, and Timothy Kaufman-Osborn, we strove to build upon the journal’s already strong reputation as an agenda-setting academic publication that offers cutting-edge scholarship in all areas of gender studies. Because the relationship between “politics …
Beauvoir and the new criticism
Beauvoir and the New Criticism
No abstract available for this article
Beauvoir and the new criticism
The Maternal Metaphor in Feminist Scholarship
Numerous schools of psychoanalytic thought inform contemporary feminist scholarship. This paper examines how two schools, object relations theory and work of Jacques Lacan, can be useful to the feminist enterprise. It focuses especially on the theme of the maternal: while the stated schools conceptualize this theme differently, both rely on the notion of an internalized maternal metaphor held within the child's unconscious. This internalized meta…
National Identity in Contemporary Theory
This paper analyzes two psychoanalytic readings of national identity. It scrutinizes the work of Vamik Volkan and Julia Kristeva, both of whom explain the emotional needs which undergird this category. After exploring these approaches to national identity, approaches which rebuff the postmodern insistence on fluidity, the paper then considers some problems that inhere in too adamant a defense of the nation-state. It insists that, while national i…
Identity and Nonidentity in Aesthetic Theory
The parergonal politics of Barack Obama
This article offers a Derridean analysis of Barack Obama’s statement that, as president, he would be willing to negotiate with political actors dubbed ‘terrorists’, ‘rogues’, ‘enemies’, or members of the ‘axis of evil’. The article argues that the Derridean concept of the ‘parergonal’ is useful, as is the Derridean distinction between hospitality and tolerance. This is because a parergonal approach to politics, evidenced in a willingness to liste…
Voodoo, Tragedy, Desire
This essay examines Gayatri Spivak's concept of “the axiomatics of imperialism” in the context of the Haitian earthquake of 2010. It explores the problematic of offering aid to Haiti given that such benevolence lends support to the time-honored assumption that it is a benighted nation that cannot help itself, but remains in need of European and American sponsorship. The essay considers this problematic by first discussing an American-run, Christi…
Teaching Marx & Critical Theory in the 21st Century
Teaching Marx and Critical Theory in the 21st Century
"The Known Footsteps of My Mother"
This article analyzes Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet in terms of maternal themes, especially those central to French feminism. Drawing on Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection and the terrifying maternal abyss, it highlights the empty dark spaces that run throughout all four novels. The article focuses especially on the maternal abyss that informs Elena's relationship with her mother, Immacolata, a character whose backgrounding allows her to…
Slow Culture and the American Dream
Is the USA hospitable to the slow movement? The land of fast food, get-rich-quick schemes, and 24/7 news feeds? In Slow Culture and the American Dream: A Slow and Curvy Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century, Mary Caputi argues that the slow movement has much to teach the United States at this moment in time. Although slow philosophy is in many ways opposite to the prevalent American Dream, the current cultural setting demands that we heed its t…
Our Editorial Experience at Politics & Gender, 2016–19
I, Mary Caputi, was humbled and honored to be offered the editorship of Politics & Gender, a position that I filled between 2016–19. With my hard-working associate editors Sun Young Kwak, Steve Gonzales, and Timothy Kaufman-Osborn, we strove to build upon the journal’s already strong reputation as an agenda-setting academic publication that offers cutting-edge scholarship in all areas of gender studies. Because the relationship between “politics …
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