Contributing to a lively dialogue with Anglo-American and French theorists, The Lonely Mirror (originally published in 1993) sets out to contextualize Italian feminist theory within the international debate.
Contributing to a lively dialogue with Anglo-American and French theorists, The Lonely Mirror (originally published in 1993) sets out to contextualize Italian feminist theory within the international debate. The essays vividly illuminate the specific character of Italian feminism as a political and intellectual movement and expose the differences between the more institutionalized nature of womens studies in the United States and Britain. It will be of vital interest both to general and academic readers who want to explore some of the most vibrant developments in European feminism.
Part I: Language, Literature, Semiotics
1. The discourse of passion
2.
Woman-graphy
3. The erotic woman writer: a special case of hypokrites
4. A
double-voiced silence
5. Language in the crucible of the mind Part II:
Psychoanalysis
6. Maternal role and personal identity: on the womens
movement and psychoanalysis
7. In search of the mirror: fusion and
differentiation in womens groups
8. The female animal Part III: History
9.
Premiss: a figure of power and an invitation to history Epilogue: to room
nineteen
10. On mothers and sisters: fragments on
women/feminism/historiography Part IV: Philosophy
11. Towards a theory of
sexual difference
12. Jumping
13. On the female word and its spirit
