Laughing with Medusa : classical myth and feminist thought /
"Laughing with Medusa explores a series of interlinking questions, including: Does history's self-positioning as the successor of myth result in the exclusion of alternative narratives of the past? How does feminism exclude itself from certain historical discourses? Why has psychoanalysis...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Classical presences.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- The Cronos complex : psychoanalytic myths of the future for boys and girls / Rachel Bowlby
- 'Who are we when we read?' : Keats, Klein, Cixous, and Elizabeth Cook's Achilles / Vanda Zajko
- Beyond Oedipus : feminist thought, psychoanalysis, and mythical figurations of the feminine / Griselda Pollock
- Lacan, Irigaray, and beyond : Antigones and the politics of psychoanalysis / Miriam Leonard
- Antigone and the politics of sisterhood / Simon Goldhill
- Fascism on stage : Jean Anouilh's Antigone / Katie Fleming
- A woman's history of warfare / Ellen O'Gorman
- 'Beyond glorious ocean' : feminism, myth, and America / Gregory Staley
- Atoms, individuals, and myths / Duncan Kennedy
- The philosopher and the mother cow : towards a gendered reading of Lucretius, De rerum natura / Alison Sharrock
- Science fictions and cyber myths, or, Do cyborgs dream of Dolly the sheep? / Genevieve Liveley
- Putting the women back into the Hesiodic Catalogue of women / Lillian Doherty
- Reclaiming the muse / Penny Murray
- Defying history : the legend of Helen in modern Greek poetry / Efi Spentzou
- 'This tart fable' : Daphne and Apollo in modern women's poetry / Rowena Fowler
- Iphigeneia's wedding / Elizabeth Cook.