Papers from a Conference on Women, the Arts, and Society, held at Susquehanna University, Nov. 3-5, 1988 and sponsored by the University. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Bisexuality in Hélène Cixous, Virginia Woolf, and H. D. : an aspect of l'écriture féminine / Jane Augustine -- The witch's garden : the feminist grotesque / Susan R. Bowers -- Desperately seeking a subject : postmodern sexuality, Seidelman, and Madonna / Cynthia J. Fuchs -- Subject, object, camera : photographing women in The unbearable lightness of being / Jennifer M. Green -- The discursive construction of women's sexuality and madness in mainstream cinema / Debra Humphreys -- Romance subversion : eighteenth-century feminine fiction / Mary Anne Schofield -- Even as we speak : woman's voice and the myth of Echo / Susan C. Fischman -- Tisbé, Dané, and Procné, three old French/Ovidian heroines in quest of personal freedom / Raymond Cormier -- The pain of the body's world : women, poetry, and society in the works of Adrienne Rich / Karen Elias. She for God in her : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's new Eve / Margaret M. Morlier -- Resistance and containment of the feminine in Spanish romantic theater : the example of Macías / Linda S. Materna -- Women in conflict in Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's tales / Edith Toegel -- The bright shadow : images of the double in women's poetry / Helane Levine-Keating.
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