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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Zajko, Vanda, Leonard, Miriam
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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.