She Changes by Intrigue : : Irony, Femininity and Feminism / / Lydia Rainford.
Contemporary feminist theorists have implied a special affinity between women and irony because of their 'double' relation to the prevailing order of things: both speak from within this order while remaining 'other' to it in some way. Irony can be regarded as the obvious mode in...
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| Superior document: | GENUS: Gender in Modern Culture ; 6 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2005. |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | GENUS: Gender in Modern Culture ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (261 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The 'Impossible Dialectic': Julia Kristeva
- The Anxiety of Irony: Søren Kierkegaard
- Unsustainable Change? The Traps of Ironic Femininity
- 'Irony and Something Else': Jacques Derrida
- Miming History: Jacques Derrida
- Afterword: The Lesson of Irony, The Future of Feminism
- Works Cited.