Women, Love, and Power : : Literary and Psychoanalytic Perspectives / / Elaine Baruch.

Elaine Baruch is not only among the most quiet-voiced and fair-minded of feminist writers. She is also among the most far-ranging in her scholarship, equally at ease with the writers of the Renaissance and Freud, the medieval troubadours, and our contemporary polemicists. . . instructive, absorbing,...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]
©1991
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Whatever Happened to Romantic Love?
  • 3. He Speaks/She Speaks: Language in Some Medieval Love Literature
  • 4. The Politics of Courtship
  • 5. Marvell's "Nymph": A Study of Feminine Consciousness
  • 6. Romantic Narcissism: Freud and the Love O/Abject
  • 7. On Splitting the Sexual Object: Before and After Freud
  • 8. The Feminine Bildungsroman: Education through Marriage
  • 9. Ibsen's Doll House: A Myth for Our Time
  • 10. Women and Love: Some Dying Myths
  • 11. "A Natural and Necessary Monster": Women in Men's Utopias
  • 12. Love and the Sexual Object in Zamyatin's We and Orwell's 1984, with a Postscript on the Feminist Utopia
  • 13. The Female Body and the Male Mind: Reconsidering Simone de Beauvoir
  • 14. The Return of Romantic Love: Living the Literature
  • Index