Modern Thought Translation Series, Volume 3 -- Thinking Through the Body

Author: Gallup
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Publication Date: 2005-03-01
Features: For Gallup, these articles all revolve around a central and urgent question: How can one become a female intellectual? Gallup has created a continuously fluctuating, vibrant field of uncertainty. This book is dynamic and worth reading, perhaps reaching more diverse readers than Gallup himself imagined. — Women's Review of Books
Gallup is never self-enclosed or mysterious, as an author can be wise. Her excellent reflections on her own articles, their presentation, and her own voice and body in this era are both outrageous and commendable irreverence, exceptionally interesting yet fundamentally serious. — Mary Ann Caws, City University of New York
Jane Gallup teaches Feminist Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Literary Theory in the Modern Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has also written Reading Lacan, The Daughter's Temptation: Feminism and Psychoanalysis, and Crossings: Reading Sade with Bataille, Blanchot, and Klossowski. Thinking Through the Body is a powerful work by Jane Gallup, a highly influential feminist literary critic and theorist in contemporary America. It includes several representative essays published by the author from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, spanning about a decade, and、、、、. The author offers a fresh perspective on the body as a field of knowledge from multiple angles, explores the relationship between the French writer Marquis de Sade and his mother from both personal experience and fictional scenes, and analyzes Roland Barthes' The Pleasure of the Text, Sherry Ortner's Ortner Report, and Louise Illigal's This Sex Which Is Not One from a female perspective. These influential literary and social science research texts in contemporary Western thought are reflected upon, and Freud's works are discussed as literary texts in an innovative way.