What Does a Woman Want?: Reading and Sexual Difference

by Shoshana Felman and Professor Shoshana Felman

Book Overview

'What does a woman want?'--the question Freud famously formulated in a letter to Marie Bonaparte--is a quintessentially male question that arises from women's resistance to their place in a patriarchal society. But what might it mean, asks Shoshana Felman, for a woman to reclaim this question as her own? Can this question engender, through the literary or the psychoanalytic work, a woman's voice as its speaking subject? Felman explores these questions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080184620X
• ISBN13: 9780801846205
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"