The Fractured Family: The Second Sex and Its (Dis)connected Daughters - Hardcover

MacNabb, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820418811 ISBN 13: 9780820418810

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 1993

Synopsis

The Fractured Family brings together an unusual and provocative combination of feminist literary criticism and social psychology, as well as traditional and non-traditional psychoanalytic thought. It tells the «story» of Simone de Beauvoir's 1953 feminist manifesto, The Second Sex, which has functioned as a kind of unwilling mother to later feminist works. Suggesting that the feminist family has developed in a dysfunctional patriarchal environment, this book explores ways in which «real» mother-daughter relationship parallel those of feminist critical texts. In doing so, The Fractured Family proposes that Beauvoir's The Second Sex is perhaps the most significant feminist work of the contemporary era.

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About the Author

The Author: Elizabeth L. MacNabb is currently a Professor in English and Humanities at the University of Louisville (Kentucky), where she teaches a broad range of literature courses. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and was selected for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Writing at Illinois State University. She has published a variety of works, ranging from poetry and feminist critical essays to a short bibliography of texts on and about philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0820418811
• ISBN 13: 9780820418810
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210