Feminist Readings of Antigone - SUNY series in Gender Theory

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Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Available in cloth. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Antigone Today? / Fanny Soderback -- Prologue: Nomadic Antigone / Moira Fradinger -- I. Between Past and Future: Feminist Politics in the Private and Public Realms -- 1. After Antigone: Women, the Past, and the Future of Feminist Political Thought / Catherine A. Holland -- 2. On the Body of Antigone / Adriana Cavarero -- 3. Impossible Mourning: Sophocles Reversed / Fanny Soderback -- 4. The Performative Politics and Rebirth of Antigone in Ancient Greece and Modern South Africa / Tina Chanter -- 5. The Eternal Irony of the Community / Luce Irigaray -- 6. the celestial Antigone, the most resplendent figure ever to have appeared on earth: Hegel's Feminism / J. M. Bernstein -- II. Incestuous Desire: Sexuality, Kinship, and Psychoanalytical Approaches -- 7. Promiscuous Obedience / Judith Butler -- 8. Antigone's Line / Mary Beth Mader -- 9. Beyond Pleasure: The Other History of Sexuality / Cecilia Sjoholm -- 10. Transgressing With-In-To the Feminine / Bracha L. Ettinger -- 11. Antigone: Limit and Horizon / Julia Kristeva -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index. Review Citations:

Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2011 pg. 240 (EAN 9781438432786, Paperback)