Judith Still
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Still |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Still |
| SIGNATURE | STILL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Condé, Creation, Consumption and Cannibalism
Maryse Condé’s Histoire de la femme cannibale (2003) narrates the Black artist Rosélie’s attempt to uncover the truth about her white partner Stephen’s death in South Africa, and hence understand their histoire together and reach a greater degree of creative autonomy. In spite of the trauma it describes, the novel is often playful and ironic in its treatment of racism, creativity and sexual relations. This has led some readers to emphasize above …
Critical Animal Studies
Disorderly eating in contemporary women’s writing
The Introduction presents the rationale for this special issue, and engages with key scholarship in the field. It makes the case for considering eating disorders in the wider context of ‘disorderly eating’, both as a sociological phenomenon and a recurrent literary concern, granted the importance of ordering and regulating food consumption for community cohesion. It is particularly concerned to ask what is, and what is not, specific about the con…
Disorderly eating in Marie Ndiaye’s ‘La Gourmandise’, or The solitary pleasure of a Mère de famille
NDiaye’s typically subtle and polysemic story ‘La Gourmandise’ (1996) can be interpreted as the cautionary tale of a housewife’s short-lived frenzy that could have ended with a descent into madness brought on by the escalation of a destructive secret passion (binge eating). It also represents, writ large, everywoman’s everyday battle with food. A third approach might see the protagonist, working-class drudge Antoinette who has little cultural cap…
The Uncanny Indian
Refusing Consumption and Querying Genre
Even thinking (at) the border of thought, images and dreams (perhaps semi-fictions), inevitably raises questions of genre and how we read: what is the effect of the words (syllables, letters, sounds), and what is their affect? Does the phrase 'unidentifiable literary object' help us imagine both the impossibility of identifying or deciding, and the inevitability, need or desire to figure something out? The dialogue between Jacques Derrida and Hél…
Figures of Oriental Hospitality
This chapter describes the complexity of present-day reflections on hospitality, it takes the example of early Enlightenment writing about Oriental hospitality and the contrast with French inhospitality in the same period. The personal dimension that we experience in our everyday lives both inflects our analysis of the political dimension and is part and parcel of it for many migrants who find a home with kin, friends or acquaintances. The debate…
Derrida and Other Animals
Derrida and Other Animals
"Judith Still offers a comprehensive discussion of Derrida's contribution to the long-standing philosophical and political debate which insists on defining 'man' against 'the animal'. She makes extensive reference to the two volumes recently published, in French and English, of Derrida's seminar series The Beast and the Sovereign, with particular attention to his source texts such as Defoe, Hobbes, La Fontaine, Rousseau, Agamben and Heidegger."
The Slave1
This chapter takes off from Derrida’s examination of the relationship between the sovereign and the people in Early Modern political philosophy, notably Rousseau’s Social Contract and Rousseau’s interlocutors (Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes); and from Derrida’s analysis of servitude or slavery in Robinson Crusoe . It sets this in the context of other Enlightenment writings on slavery and abolition (e.g. returning to the Encyclopédie ), and to represent…
Isabelle de Charrière's Three Women - Adopting and Adapting Hospitality after Kant
This is an analysis of Isabelle de Charrière's novel_Trois femmes (1795) as an engagement with Kant's ‘Über den Gemeinspruch: Das mag in der Theorie richtig sein, taugt aber nicht für die Praxis’ (1793). This long article is a refutation of critics of Kant's absolute and universal concept of duty and right, not only in theory but also in practice, via analysis of three male philosophers covering the spheres of the ethical interactions of the indi…
When is a Technology not a Technology? When it's Women's Work
Hospitable Harems? A European Woman and Oriental Spaces in the Enlightenment
This is an analysis of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters, first written in the early eighteenth century when she travelled to the Ottoman Empire, and finally ‘published’ in 1763. As well as producing ‘the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient’, Montagu is a pioneer in introducing the Turkish women's practice of inoculation against smallpox into England. This article sets out the long-standing cr…
French (In) Hospitality
Continuing Debates About ‘French’ Feminist Theory
This article analyses attempts to write the ‘herstory’ of feminism, and the tendency to use the vocabulary of ‘generation’ (in particular Julia Kristeva, Toril Moi, Kelly Oliver and Lisa Walsh). It concludes that the issues raised by ‘earlier generations’ are still alive, and that important questions that now seem to be given greater prominence such as ‘intersex’ or cultural difference do not necessarily involve any methodological shift. Examples…
France and the Paradigm of Hospitality
Enlightenment Hospitality
Derrida
Language as Hospitality
What is a Man? Looking at the Traces of Men's Sexuality, Race and Class in the Work of Some Contemporary Photographers
(Re)presenting Masculinities
Poetic Nuptials
Not Really Prostitution
NOT REALLY PROSTITUTION: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SEXUAL TOURISM IN GIDE'S SI LE GRAIN NE MEURT JUDITH STILL JUDITH STILL UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LIV, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 17–34, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LIV.1.17 Published: 01 January 2000
Genlis's Mademoiselle de Clermont
William Grant Still
France and the Paradigm of Hospitality
Language as Hospitality
French (In) Hospitality
Continuing Debates About ‘French’ Feminist Theory
This article analyses attempts to write the ‘herstory’ of feminism, and the tendency to use the vocabulary of ‘generation’ (in particular Julia Kristeva, Toril Moi, Kelly Oliver and Lisa Walsh). It concludes that the issues raised by ‘earlier generations’ are still alive, and that important questions that now seem to be given greater prominence such as ‘intersex’ or cultural difference do not necessarily involve any methodological shift. Examples…
Enlightenment Hospitality
Derrida
What is a Man? Looking at the Traces of Men's Sexuality, Race and Class in the Work of Some Contemporary Photographers
(Re)presenting Masculinities
Poetic Nuptials
Homo economicus in the 20th century
In this article I argue that the dominant discourse of our day is econ omic universalism. This has translated comfortably from modernity to postmodernity. Within this discourse real differences and inequalities are homogenized by narratives such as those of choice and diversity. I shall question this in two ways: first, by borrowing from French post- structuralism to rename the discourse a 'masculine economy', and thus to invoke a 'feminine econo…
In My Father's House
Carrie Still Shepperson
From Eliot's "Raw Bone" to Gyges' Ring
Lucretia's Silent Rhetoric
Far from being a repression of the political, as Althusser would have it, literature is condemned to being the truly political mode of discourse. The relationship of this discourse to political praxis cannot be described in psychological or in psycholinguistic terms, but rather in terms of the relationship, within the rhetorical model, between the referential and the figural semantic fields' (Allegories of Reading, p. 157)
Djanet Lachmet's Le Cow-boy
Rousseau's Lévite d'EPHRAÏM
Journal Article ROUSSEAU'S LÉVITE D'EPHRAÏM: THE IMPOSITION OF MEANING (ON WOMEN) Get access JUDITH STILL JUDITH STILL KINGSTON UPON THAMES Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XLIII, Issue 1, January 1989, Pages 12–30, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XLIII.1.12 Published: 01 January 1989
Reacting to 'Lyotard
Dreams of the end of markets
Homo economicus in the 20th century
In this article I argue that the dominant discourse of our day is econ omic universalism. This has translated comfortably from modernity to postmodernity. Within this discourse real differences and inequalities are homogenized by narratives such as those of choice and diversity. I shall question this in two ways: first, by borrowing from French post- structuralism to rename the discourse a 'masculine economy', and thus to invoke a 'feminine econo…
Horror in Kristeva and Bataille
William Grant Still
Not Really Prostitution
NOT REALLY PROSTITUTION: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SEXUAL TOURISM IN GIDE'S SI LE GRAIN NE MEURT JUDITH STILL JUDITH STILL UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LIV, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 17–34, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LIV.1.17 Published: 01 January 2000
Genlis's Mademoiselle de Clermont
Poetic Nuptials
What is a Man? Looking at the Traces of Men's Sexuality, Race and Class in the Work of Some Contemporary Photographers
(Re)presenting Masculinities
Language as Hospitality
Derrida
France and the Paradigm of Hospitality
Enlightenment Hospitality
Continuing Debates About ‘French’ Feminist Theory
This article analyses attempts to write the ‘herstory’ of feminism, and the tendency to use the vocabulary of ‘generation’ (in particular Julia Kristeva, Toril Moi, Kelly Oliver and Lisa Walsh). It concludes that the issues raised by ‘earlier generations’ are still alive, and that important questions that now seem to be given greater prominence such as ‘intersex’ or cultural difference do not necessarily involve any methodological shift. Examples…
Hospitable Harems? A European Woman and Oriental Spaces in the Enlightenment
This is an analysis of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters, first written in the early eighteenth century when she travelled to the Ottoman Empire, and finally ‘published’ in 1763. As well as producing ‘the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient’, Montagu is a pioneer in introducing the Turkish women's practice of inoculation against smallpox into England. This article sets out the long-standing cr…
French (In) Hospitality
Isabelle de Charrière's Three Women - Adopting and Adapting Hospitality after Kant
This is an analysis of Isabelle de Charrière's novel_Trois femmes (1795) as an engagement with Kant's ‘Über den Gemeinspruch: Das mag in der Theorie richtig sein, taugt aber nicht für die Praxis’ (1793). This long article is a refutation of critics of Kant's absolute and universal concept of duty and right, not only in theory but also in practice, via analysis of three male philosophers covering the spheres of the ethical interactions of the indi…
When is a Technology not a Technology? When it's Women's Work
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