New Feminist Discourses

Isobel Armstrong is Emeritus Professor of English at Birkbeck, University of London.

• 1. Introduction Part 1: Knowledges 2. Feminist Aesthetics and the New Realism 3. Walking, Women and Writing: Virginia Woolf as flâneuse 4. Happy Families? Feminist Reproduction and Matrilinear Thought 5. An Other Space: A Future for Feminism Part 2: Subjectivities 6. Releasing Possibility into Form: Cultural Choice and the Woman Writer 7. Fakes and Femininity: Vita Sackville-West and her Mother 8. The Dangers of Angela Carter Part 3: Languages 9. Love, Mourning and Metaphor: Terms of Identity 10. Why the Lady’s Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun 11. Unsilent Instruments and the Devil’s Cushions: Authority in Seventeenth-century Women’s Prophetic Discourse Part 4: Representations 12. Getting down to Basics: Art, Obscenity and the Female Nude 13. Do or Die: Problems of Agency and Gender in the Aesthetics of Murder 14. The Politics of Focus: Feminism and Photography Theory 15. The Hand of the Huntress: Repetition and Malory’s Morte Darthur Part 5: Others 16. New Hystericism: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko: the Body, the Text and the Feminist Critic 17. The Great Distinction: Figures of the Exotic in the Work of William Hodges 18. ‘Because Men Made the Laws;: The Fallen Woman and the Woman Poet