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Fair Sex, Savage Dreams
Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference
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Jean Walton
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English
Published/Copyright:
2001
About this book
A groundbreaking examination of racialized subtexts (and the subsequent priviligeng of whiteness) in foundational feminist critiques of psychoanalysis.
Author / Editor information
Jean Walton is Associate Professor of English, Women’s Studies, and Film Studies at the University of Rhode Island.
Reviews
“In this groundbreaking book Jean Walton subjects psychoanalysis to a sustained and highly illuminating ethnographic critique. She has isolated a period—the 1920s and 1930s, the era of the great debates about femininity—in which there is a critical confrontation between questions of gender/sexuality and questions of race. Her incisive analyses of five women writers of this period are often fascinating, always provocative, and she demonstrates persuasively the inextricability of sexuality and race in their attempts to negotiate a ‘speaking position’ for themselves within a masculine domain.”—Mary Anne Doane, author of Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis
“This intelligent and clear-thinking book provides a fascinating look into the racial fantasies of five modernist women. Focussing our attention on the evasions and displacements of both psychoanalysis and feminism, Walton demonstrates that race is never very far from twentieth-century culture’s founding narratives of sexual difference. A welcome and important investigation of white women’s racial imaginaries, a study as intellectually subtle as it is boldly original.”—Diana Fuss, author of Identification Papers
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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List of Figures
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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ONE Masquerade and Reparation: (White) Womanliness in Riviere and Klein
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TWO ‘‘Nightmare of the Uncoordinated White-Folk’’: Psychoanalysis and the Queer Matrix of Borderline
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THREE Marie Bonaparte and the ‘‘Executive Organ’’
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FOUR ‘‘The Black Spitting Girl!!’’
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FIVE The Ethnographic Alibi
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SIX A People of Her Own: Margaret Mead
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SEVEN A Rap on Race: Mead and Baldwin
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Conclusion
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
February 16, 2001
eBook ISBN:
9780822380931
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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256
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21 b&w photographs, 1 table
