The Newly Born Woman,9780816614660

The Newly Born Woman

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ISBN13: 9780816614660
ISBN10: 0816614660
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1986-06-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Summary

Published in France as La jeune nee in 1975, and now translated for the first time into English, The Newly Born Woman seeks to uncover the veiled structures of language and society that have situated women in the position called 'woman's place.'

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Tarentella of Theory ix
Sandra M. Gilbert
Part 1. The Guilty One 1(62)
Sorceress and Hysteric
3(37)
Culture and Repressive Structures
6(4)
Signs and Marks: The Theater of the Body
10(4)
Attack, Abreaction, Expulsion
14(3)
Attack, Celebration, Issue
17(5)
Celebration and Madness
22(4)
The Child, the Savage
26(6)
Crossing Over and Contagion
32(8)
Seduction and Guilt
40(18)
History of Seduction: First Scene, ``The Perverse Fathers''
41(4)
History of Seduction: Second Scene, ``The Lying Daughters''
45(5)
History of Seduction: Third Scene, ``The Guilty Mother''
50(2)
History of Seduction: Epilogue, ``A Family Affair''
52(3)
Taking Flight
55(3)
Bibliography
58(5)
Part 2. Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays 63(72)
Notes
130(5)
Part 3. Exchange 135(28)
A Woman Mistress
135(12)
The Untenable
147(16)
Glossary 163

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