Feminine Look: Sexuation, Spectatorship, Subversion

by Jennifer Friedlander

Book Overview

Feminine Look shows how the Lacanian concept of sexuation makes possible a new account of the relationship among feminism, psychoanalysis, and spectatorship. Whereas previous studies have tended to ask how spectatorship may be influenced by sexual difference, Jennifer Friedlander asks how particular spectatorial encounters may engender different "sexuated" responses. In so doing, she traces a fresh path through Freud's account of the relationship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791472957
• ISBN13: 9780791472958
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 139 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"