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"What does a woman want?" is a male question, originally posed by Freud. This book explores whether this question can engender a woman's voice as its speaking subject. It examines autobiographical texts by Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir and Adrienne Rich, as well as psychoanalytic works.

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Felman pries open, radically displaces, and reengenders this question, through literature... psychoanalysis... and women's autobiographical writing. -- Frances L. Restuccia Novel

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. What Does a Women Want? The Question of Autobiography and the Bond of Reading
Chapter 2. Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy
Chapter 3. Textuality and the Riddle of Bisexuality
Chapter 4. Competing Pregnancies: The Dream from which Psychoanalysis Proceeds
Chapter 5. With Whom Do You Believe Your Lot is Cast? Woolfe, de Beauvoir, Rich and the Struggle for Autobiography
Notes
Index

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 November 1993
      ISBN-13 9780801846205
      978-0801846205
      ISBN-10 080184620X
      Also in:
      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      "What does a woman want?" is a male question, originally posed by Freud. This book explores whether this question can engender a woman's voice as its speaking subject. It examines autobiographical texts by Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir and Adrienne Rich, as well as psychoanalytic works.

      Trade Review
      Felman pries open, radically displaces, and reengenders this question, through literature... psychoanalysis... and women's autobiographical writing. -- Frances L. Restuccia Novel

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1. What Does a Women Want? The Question of Autobiography and the Bond of Reading
      Chapter 2. Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy
      Chapter 3. Textuality and the Riddle of Bisexuality
      Chapter 4. Competing Pregnancies: The Dream from which Psychoanalysis Proceeds
      Chapter 5. With Whom Do You Believe Your Lot is Cast? Woolfe, de Beauvoir, Rich and the Struggle for Autobiography
      Notes
      Index

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