Thinking Through the Body

By Jane Gallop

Book Overview

From one of our most outspoken feminist critics, this collection explores various ways in which the body can be rethought of as a site of knowledge rather than as a medium to move beyond or dominate. Moving between a theoretical and confessional stance, Gallop explores Sade's relation to mothers both in his novels and his life; Barthe's The Pleasure of the Text; Freud's work, read not as a psychological text but as a literary endeavor and from a woman's point of view; and Luce Irigarary's famous This Sex Which Is Not One.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231066112
• ISBN13: 9780231066112
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher