Teresa de Lauretis

Essays in Feminist Theory

Figures of Resistance

The changing face of feminist discourse as reflected by the career of one of its preeminent scholars Figures of Resistance brings together the unpublished lectures and little-seen essays of internationally renowned theorist Teresa de Lauretis, spanning over twenty years of her finest work. Thirty years after the height of feminist theory, this collection invites us to reflect on the history of feminism and take a hard look at where it stands today. Selected essays include "Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation," "The Lure of the Mannish Lesbian," "Eccentric Subjects," "Habit Changes," "The Intractability of Desire," and the unpublished article "Figures of Resistance." An introduction from feminist film scholar Patricia White provides an overview of the development of de Lauretis's thought and of feminist theory over past decades.

"Technologies of Gender builds a bridge between the fashionable orthodoxies of academic theory (Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, et al.) and the frequently-marginalized contributions of feminist theory. . . . In sum, de Lauretis has written a book that should be required reading for every feminist in need of theoretical ammunition—and for every theorist in need of feminist enlightenment." —B. Ruby Rich " . . . sets philosophical ideas humming. . . . she has much to say." —Cineaste "I can think of no other work that pushes the debate on the female subject forward with such passion and intellectual rigor." —SubStance This book addresses the question of gender in poststructuralist theoretical discourse, postmodern fiction, and women's cinema. It examines the construction of gender both as representation and as self-representation in relation to several kinds of texts and argues that feminism is producing a radical rewriting, as well as a rereading, of the dominant forms of Western culture.

Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction

Technologies of Gender

Laura Mulvey

Noël Burch

Márgara Millán

Paula Rabinowitz

Giulia Colaizzi

Este libro argumenta en favor de un trabajo crítico que haga hincapié, por un lado, en la Semiótica como Teoría general de la comunicación y de la producción / reproducción socio-ideológica y, por el otro, en la Teoría de género en cuanto Teoría del discurso, dimensión crítica indispensable para una comprensión efectiva tanto de la subjetividad como del imaginario social. Desde este punto de vista y en el contexto de la interculturalidad como base de toda formación cultural que resulta de la interacción de poderes distintos e históricamente específicos, el estudio del cine es especialmente relevante para el análisis crítico de los lenguajes no verbales (o no solo verbales) y de la comunicación audiovisual. Por eso es importante llevar a cabo una reflexión crítica sobre el cine que sea capaz de desentrañar su dimensión política en cuanto elemento productivo (y no reproductivo, o mimético) del imaginario socio-sexual de nuestra época.

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