Surrealism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
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Author_Natalya Lusty
Bataille's Texts
Bataille’s Texts
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Bellmer's Doll
Bellmer's Work
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Bellmer’s Doll
Bellmer’s Work
Breton's Narrative
Breton’s Narrative
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Cahun's Self-portraits
Cahun's Work
cahuns
Cahun’s Self-portraits
Cahun’s Work
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Claude Cahun
cultural psychoanalysis
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Female Dandy
female subjectivity
feminist literary criticism
Frida Kahlo
hans
Hans Bellmer
hearing
Hearing Trumpet
lesbian modernism
modernist gender theory
Opposite Emotional Valences
Papin Sisters
PFL
Photographic Self-portrait
Reluctant Debutante
Riviere's Essay
Riviere’s Essay
Sex Pictures
Sherman's Images
Sherman's Work
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Sherman’s Images
Sherman’s Work
Snow Queen
Surrealism's Celebration
Surrealism’s Celebration
Surrealist Movement
Surrealist Photography
surrealist representations of femininity
visual culture studies
work
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754653363
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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How did women Surrealists such as Leonora Carrington and Claude Cahun take up the question of female identity in terms of their own aesthetic and intellectual practice? What was the response of women analysts such as Joan Riviere to Freud's psychoanalytic construction of femininity? These are among the questions that Natalya Lusty brings to her sophisticated and theoretically informed investigation into the appropriation of 'the feminine' by the Surrealist movement. Combining biographical and textual methods of analysis with historically specific discussions of related cultural sites such as women's magazines, fashion, debutante culture, sexology, modernist lesbian subculture, pornography, and female criminality, the book examines the ambiguities and blind spots that haunt the work of more central figures such as André Breton, Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, Walter Benjamin, and the Surrealist photographer Hans Bellmer. Lusty's examination of a series of psychoanalytic Surrealist themes, including narcissism, fantasy, masquerade, perversion, and 'the double', illuminates a modernist preoccupation with the crisis of subjectivity and representation and its ongoing relevance to more recent work by Cindy Sherman and Judith Butler. Her book is an important contribution to modernist studies that will appeal to scholars and students working across a diverse range of fields, including literary studies, gender studies, visual culture, cultural studies, and cultural history.
Natalya Lusty is a Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia.
