Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference

by Jean Walton

In Fair Sex, Savage Dreams Jean Walton examines the work of early feminist psychoanalytic writing to decipher in it the unacknowledged yet foundational role of race. Focusing on the 1920s and 1930s, a time when white women were actively refashioning Freud's problematic accounts of sexual subjectivity, Walton rereads in particular the writing of British analysts Joan Riviere and Melanie Klein, modernist poet H.D., the eccentric French analyst...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822326116
• ISBN13: 9780822326113
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.0"