Nostalgia And Sexual Difference [antikvár]

ur book aims to show how poststructuralist theory can empower feminists by providing them with a way to analyze the strategies of representation. Interpretive strategies informed by poststructuralist theory have made it possible for us to conceptualize and discuss a frightening antifeminist impulse; we call it nostalgic. Nostalgia, as we define it, is a retreat to the past in the face of what a number of writers—most of them male—perceive to be the degeneracy of American culture brought about by the rise of feminist authority. Without reading male writers, we could not have gauged the resistance to feminism. And we would not have known how feminist arguments about women's "difference" have been appropriated by antifeminist writers. Our work has thus led us to enter the current debate among feminists about the articulation of sexual difference: we question recent efforts in feminist writing to establish a unitary identity for "woman," "woman's sphere," or "woman's writing." At xui