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