Beyond Feminist Aesthetics
Feminist Literature and Social Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4811537 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sonja Laden |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 618 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Beyond feminist aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change, Rita Felski, 1989 |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1772662 |
| OpenAlex | W2078547968 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Beyond Feminist Aesthetics has a dual focus. First, Rita Felski gives a critical account of current American and European feminist literary theory, and second, she offers an analysis of contemporary fiction by women, drawing in particular on the genres of the autobiographical confession and the novel of self-discovery, in order to show that this literature raises questions for feminism that cannot be answered in terms of a purely gender based analysis.Felski argues that the idea of a feminist aesthetic is a nonissue that feminists have needlessly pursued; she suggests, in contrast, that it is impossible to speak of masculine and feminine, subversive and reactionary literary forms in isolation from the social conditions of their production and reception. The political value of such works of literature from the standpoint of feminism can be determined only by an investigation of their social functions and effects in relation to the interests of women in a particular historical context. This leads her to argue for an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of literature which can integrate literary and social theory, and to develop such an approach by drawing upon the model of a feminist counter-public sphere.Rita Felski has produced a closely reasoned, stimulating book that creates a new framework for discussing the relationship between literature and feminist politics. It will interest students and teachers of women's studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, and fiction
Aesthetics · Art · Feminism · Feminist philosophy · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
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Jennifer Fox's Transcultural Talking Cure
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Simulacrum Diaries
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Gênero e tradução
Creating alternative spaces and articulating needs
Ferguson is everywhere
The public sphere on the beach
An `Other' Burlesque
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Transformations in the Mediation of Publicness
Dangerous Waters and Brave Space
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Performance of feminine discourse in designing women
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Neighbourly Injuries
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Confessions of the New Capitalist Mother
The [Female] Subject in Critical Venues
Virgins and Mothers
Liberal Feminism, from Law to Art
Confessing Feminist Theory
Aesthetics in Crisis
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The Poetics of Green Esthetics
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An Appetite for Activism
The Harmony of the Tea Table
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Speaking of Death
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Hijacking #myNypd
Public Theology and Counter-Public Spheres
Human Rights and Broken Cisterns
Ten Year Checkup
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Enabling Fictions and Novel Subjects
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Writing themselves into consciousness
Challenging privilege
L’art de conquérir le contrepublic
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |