Fraught intimacies
Toward the impossibility of women’s kinship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22157097 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erica Gene Delsandro (Bucknell University, corresponding author), Jennifer Mitchell (0000-0001-8323-538X, Union College), Jennifer M Mitchell (0000-0002-7567-8129, Union College) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6-11 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Modernist Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2469-2921 • E-ISSN: 2469-293X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/24692921.2023.2171402 |
| OpenAlex | W4319811996 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
This essay argues that recognizing and examining the fraught intimacies among modernist women writers and among the female characters they create is necessary for feminist modernist scholars. The two modernist authors at the center of this essay, Nella Larsen and Jean Rhys, write relationships among women that illustrate the way white heteronormative patriarchy constrains and ultimately denies the cultivation of a mutually sustaining intimacy between women.
Acknowledgement · Aesthetics · Art · Feminism · Feminist theory · Impossibility · Kinship · Patriarchy · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Silence · Sociology · Undoing · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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