ABSTRACT
In recent years, feminist scholars, through their insistence on the key role of gender in critical analysis, have brought about a profound revitalization of literary and cultural studies. This text draws together work by leading exponents in the field. The essays explore the operations of gender in the production of knowledge and the formation of cultural representations in a wide variety of contexts, from German romantic poetry to the literature of AIDS, from Victorian ethnography to tabloid constructions of race. All of the essays engage in problems of representation, intervening in current debates in critical theory.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|60 pages
Identities
part II|58 pages
Epistemologies
chapter Chapter 6|12 pages
‘Who Fancies Pakis?'
chapter Chapter 7|16 pages
Sex and Secrets in Central Australia
part III|44 pages
Aesthetics
part IV|52 pages
Repressions