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Author Sulieman, Susan Rubin, editor

Title The Female body in western culture : contemporary perspectives / edited by Susan Rubin Suleiman
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986

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Description ix, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents (Re)writing the body : the politics and poetics of female eroticism / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- Somagrams of Gertrude Stein / Catharine R. Stimpson -- In praise of the ear (Gloss's glosses) / Thomas G. Pavel -- Dangling virgins : myth, ritual, and the place of women in ancient Greece / Eva Cantarella -- Speaking silences : women's suicide / Margaret Higonnet -- Death sentences : writing couples and ideology / Alice Jardin -- Stabat master / Julia Kristeva -- Matrix of war : mothers and heroes / Nancy Huston -- Rest cure : repetition or resolution of Victorian women's conflicts? / Ellen L. Bassuk -- Clinical eye : medical discourses in the "woman's film" of the 1940s / Mary Ann Doane -- Interpreting anorexia nervosa / Noelle Caskey -- Virgin's one bare breast : female nudity and religious meaning in Tuscan early Renaissance culture / Margaret R. Miles -- "This heraldry in Lucrece' face" / Nancy J. Vickers -- Edgar Degas and the representation of the female body / Carol M. Armstrong -- Sexuality at a loss : the films of F.W. Murnau / Janet Bergstrom -- Ladies shot and painted : female embodiment in surrealist art / Mary Ann Caws -- Jean Rhys : poses of a woman as guest / Alicia Borinsky -- Woman as a semiotic object / Christine Brooke-Rose -- Sexuality, sin, and sorrow : the emergence of female character (a reading of Genesis 1-3) / Mieke Bal -- Politics of women's bodies : reflections on Plato / Monique Canto -- Rereading as a woman : the body in practice / Nancy K. Miller -- Female fetishism : the case of George Sand / Naomi Schor -- Huysmans : writing against (female) nature / Charles Bernheimer
Analysis Arts, Modern 20th century
Civilization, Western
Erotica
Female nude in art
Women in art
Women Miscellanea
Women
Notes Majority of these essays first published in Poetics Today, v.6 no.1-2, 1985
Bibliography Includes bibliographies
Notes Also issued online
Subject Arts, Modern -- 20th century.
Civilization, Western.
Female nude in art.
Erotica.
Women in art.
Nude in art.
Women -- Miscellanea.
Women.
Author Suleiman, Susan Rubin, 1939-
LC no. 85027255
ISBN 0674298705 (alk. paper)
0674298713 (paperback: alk. paper)