Sylvie Gambaudo
Biographic Data
| ID | 323683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sylvie Gambaudo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sylvie |
| FAMILY NAME | Gambaudo |
| SIGNATURE | GAMBAUDO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
"Is There Such a Thing as "Woman Writing
The article revisits the idea that writing may be gendered and asks whether we can define what a “woman writing” practice might be. We do this through a comparative study of the work of Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler. Both have expressed reservations about, even objected to, the essentializing of gender and therefore of writing as a woman. They have, however, provided us with useful tools to define what a non-essentialist understanding of “woma…
Citation of Maternal Narratives
Narratives express and constrain what we might say about experience. In this paper, I want to explain how Janet Frame (1924–2004) was conditioned by her mother to learn and use pre-agreed narratives of family history, the accurate performance of which became the condition of the author's validity as a family member. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler on the citational self, I aim to show the tension between Frame's desire to become a writer of …
Julia Kristeva, ‘woman’s primary homosexuality’ and homophobia
This article offers a critical reading of what Julia Kristeva calls ‘woman’s primary homosexuality’ and discusses homophobia in Kristeva’s work. If we are to draw conclusions on the merits and limitations of Kristeva’s theories of sexuality, homophobia needs to be assessed within the aesthetic and ethical contexts that typify Kristeva’s overall oeuvre. The article shows that we can apply Kristeva’s semiotic/symbolic model of signification to sexu…
Melancholia in Janet Frame’s Faces in the Water
New Zealand author Janet Frame was initially diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1945, during her stay in Seacliff Mental Hospital, Dunedin, following a mental breakdown. She spent eight years in and out of psychiatric institutions in New Zealand. The diagnosis of schizophrenia was reversed in her late 30s. In 1956, she left New Zealand on a literary grant to travel Europe. While in London, she voluntarily attended psychiatric assessment at the Mauds…
From Scopophilic Pleasure to the Jouissance of the Madonna
Writings on the gaze have traditionally associated gazing with masculine activity.Pointing to a specificity of the gaze that would be masculine and thus exclusive of women brings to light the act of gazing as socially and politically significant.But doing so also risks marginalising certain forms of characteristically female gaze and obscuring the question of a theory of the feminine gaze.Theories of motherhood like those of Kristeva point us tow…
French Feminism vs Anglo-American Feminism
This article opens with the questioning of a now established scholarly category, `French feminism'. It proposes that theoretical and polemical understandings of `French feminism' have been founded on an opposition to its counterpart, `Anglo-American feminism'. The measure of this opposition has been defined mostly as geographical, linguistic and cultural. But underneath such constructions often lies the old sameness vs difference debate that has …
Absence and Revolt
French Feminism vs Anglo-American Feminism
This article opens with the questioning of a now established scholarly category, `French feminism'. It proposes that theoretical and polemical understandings of `French feminism' have been founded on an opposition to its counterpart, `Anglo-American feminism'. The measure of this opposition has been defined mostly as geographical, linguistic and cultural. But underneath such constructions often lies the old sameness vs difference debate that has …
Absence and Revolt
Citation of Maternal Narratives
Narratives express and constrain what we might say about experience. In this paper, I want to explain how Janet Frame (1924–2004) was conditioned by her mother to learn and use pre-agreed narratives of family history, the accurate performance of which became the condition of the author's validity as a family member. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler on the citational self, I aim to show the tension between Frame's desire to become a writer of …
Julia Kristeva, ‘woman’s primary homosexuality’ and homophobia
This article offers a critical reading of what Julia Kristeva calls ‘woman’s primary homosexuality’ and discusses homophobia in Kristeva’s work. If we are to draw conclusions on the merits and limitations of Kristeva’s theories of sexuality, homophobia needs to be assessed within the aesthetic and ethical contexts that typify Kristeva’s overall oeuvre. The article shows that we can apply Kristeva’s semiotic/symbolic model of signification to sexu…
Absence and Revolt
French Feminism vs Anglo-American Feminism
This article opens with the questioning of a now established scholarly category, `French feminism'. It proposes that theoretical and polemical understandings of `French feminism' have been founded on an opposition to its counterpart, `Anglo-American feminism'. The measure of this opposition has been defined mostly as geographical, linguistic and cultural. But underneath such constructions often lies the old sameness vs difference debate that has …
Melancholia in Janet Frame’s Faces in the Water
New Zealand author Janet Frame was initially diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1945, during her stay in Seacliff Mental Hospital, Dunedin, following a mental breakdown. She spent eight years in and out of psychiatric institutions in New Zealand. The diagnosis of schizophrenia was reversed in her late 30s. In 1956, she left New Zealand on a literary grant to travel Europe. While in London, she voluntarily attended psychiatric assessment at the Mauds…
From Scopophilic Pleasure to the Jouissance of the Madonna
Writings on the gaze have traditionally associated gazing with masculine activity.Pointing to a specificity of the gaze that would be masculine and thus exclusive of women brings to light the act of gazing as socially and politically significant.But doing so also risks marginalising certain forms of characteristically female gaze and obscuring the question of a theory of the feminine gaze.Theories of motherhood like those of Kristeva point us tow…
Citation of Maternal Narratives
Narratives express and constrain what we might say about experience. In this paper, I want to explain how Janet Frame (1924–2004) was conditioned by her mother to learn and use pre-agreed narratives of family history, the accurate performance of which became the condition of the author's validity as a family member. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler on the citational self, I aim to show the tension between Frame's desire to become a writer of …
Julia Kristeva, ‘woman’s primary homosexuality’ and homophobia
This article offers a critical reading of what Julia Kristeva calls ‘woman’s primary homosexuality’ and discusses homophobia in Kristeva’s work. If we are to draw conclusions on the merits and limitations of Kristeva’s theories of sexuality, homophobia needs to be assessed within the aesthetic and ethical contexts that typify Kristeva’s overall oeuvre. The article shows that we can apply Kristeva’s semiotic/symbolic model of signification to sexu…
"Is There Such a Thing as "Woman Writing
The article revisits the idea that writing may be gendered and asks whether we can define what a “woman writing” practice might be. We do this through a comparative study of the work of Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler. Both have expressed reservations about, even objected to, the essentializing of gender and therefore of writing as a woman. They have, however, provided us with useful tools to define what a non-essentialist understanding of “woma…
Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)