Name: Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction, Paperback/Teresa de Lauretis
Brand: Indiana University Press
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Technologies of Gender builds a bridge between the fashionable orthodoxies of academic theory (Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, et al.) and the frequently-marginalized contributions of feminist theory. . . . In sum, de Lauretis has written a book that should be required reading for every feminist in need of theoretical ammunition--and for every theorist in need of feminist enlightenment. --B. Ruby Rich . . . sets philosophical ideas humming. . . . she has much to say. --Cineaste I can think of no other work that pushes the debate on the female subject forward with such passion and intellectual rigor. --SubStance This book addresses the question of gender in poststructuralist theoretical discourse, postmodern fiction, and women's cinema. It examines the construction of gender both as representation and as self-representation in relation to several kinds of texts and argues that feminism is producing a radical rewriting, as well as a rereading, of the dominant forms of Western culture. About author(s): Teresa de Lauretis is Professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her most recent books are Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema and Feminist Studies/Critical Studies (ed.).