Still Crazy After All These Years - Softcover

Bowlby, Rachel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041508640X ISBN 13: 9780415086400

Publisher: Routledge, 1992

Synopsis

"Still Crazy After All These Years" aims to be an accessible, pointed and playful work on the making and unmaking of femininity. It brings together psychoanalysis, critical theory and cultural studies, to consider the interplay of feminist movements of all kinds towards a better means of constructing femininity and of identifying women's place in modern culture. Rachel Bowlby throws new light on the work of the twentieth century's major women writers (such as Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys) in the context of major thinkers such as Derrida and Freud. How do the texts written by and about women set the terms for the ways in which we think about what a woman is, or where she might be heading, either individually or collectively? Through such questions Bowlby sensitively explores how writing about women sets the terms for their possible movements, and how feminist theory can still reflect women's movements and desires.

About this title

About the Author:

Routledge Revivals is a new initiative aiming to re-issue a wealth of academic works which have long been unavailable. Encompassing a vast range from across the Humanities and Social Sciences, Routledge Revivals draws upon a distinguished catalogue of imprints and authors associated with Routledge, restoring to print books by some of the most influential academic scholars of the last 120 years.

Review:

'The verve of Rachel Bowlby's writing and the agility of her imagination make this not only a brilliant and shrewd, but an intoxicatingly hopeful book.' - New Statesman and Society

'With extraordinary lightness of touch and playful wit, Rachel Bowlby opens up serious issues. One is left smiling and only gradually does one realize the lightness has touched the profound.' - Juliet Mitchell

'Rachel Bowlby's subtle, intelligent and provocative book is among the most persuasive literary arguments I have read for the inextricable relations between feminism and psychoanalysis.' - Mary Jacobus, Cornell University

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 041508640X
• ISBN 13: 9780415086400
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 185