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differences (2019) 30 (1): 63–81.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Andrea Long Chu This essay argues that feminism is impossible. After examining a recent #MeToo episode—a bad sexual encounter between actor Aziz Ansari and a woman named Grace—as a case study in feminist disappointment, the essay turns to several key seventies feminist texts to reconstruct...
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differences (1991) 3 (3): 45–68.
Published: 01 November 1991
... by betrayal or disappointment in love. This genre - enhanced by the erotic, voyeuristic appeal of stories suggesting sexual and social transgression - invited narratives in both fictional and social scientific literature that provided a thoroughgoing exploration of female nature. Contemporary fascination...
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differences (1997) 9 (3): 132–155.
Published: 01 November 1997
... out over several decades, not become more entrenched. And I also was a bit disappointed that, despite some of the intellectual moves toward incorporating race into women's studies, the end result in the articles was a kind ofacceptance 134 The Edge. Interview that considerations of race - especially...
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differences (2003) 14 (3): 1.
Published: 01 December 2003
... fragmentary—those seeking a totalizing, exhaus-
tive history of the detail more congenial to male epistemological models
will be disappointed” (4 –5)— she sharply contests the objection that this
approach is merely “arbitra ry...
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 139–149.
Published: 01 December 2024
... Place subway station platform one cold evening in 1948 following an editorial meeting of the magazine Politics that both had attended. 1 They had not spoken since a disastrous encounter at a party in 1945 where McCarthy had cracked, “I feel sorry for Hitler,” after learning he was disappointed...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 69–78.
Published: 01 May 2023
... in which we tend to live in it. To be sure, Bersani admits to disappointment with the new relational mode to the side of the human in Anna’s “mistake” because that mode is “sequestered” to a place off-screen (30). “Where have they gone?” Bersani asks (29). In Leconte’s film, the virtual being...
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differences (1992) 4 (3): 38–65.
Published: 01 November 1992
... domestic scenarios alternating with sad and woeful laments, in nagging letters which complain of his indifference and of her patient endurance. In my state of disappointment and confusion I called on the other women engaged in studies of Miinter or of the Blaue Reiter in Munich. Together we hung our heads...
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differences (2002) 13 (2): 127–158.
Published: 01 September 2002
...
he would follow us. I was almost ready to guarantee his signature on my
own, and I was confident and joyous when I went to meet him.” Blum’s
disappointment was thus all the more cruel when the response came.
“When in doubt he would choose...
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differences (2018) 29 (1): 173–188.
Published: 01 May 2018
... that early histories are important to recall and preserve. And in some cases, these teaching experiences provided quite personal occasions to reexperience the exhilarating urgency and passion that fueled both the accomplishments and the disagreements and disappointments, the failures, of those years. But now...
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 97–111.
Published: 01 December 2010
...-cancellation in place of self-validation.”
According to Kohut, narcissists tend to invest in “self-objects” (originally
the parents) that inevitably disappoint them. Because narcissists have not
developed a sufficiently stable ego-ideal...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 196–203.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of their parents to engage in “don’t ask don’t tell” with themselves and their partners. By drawing a line in the sand, they are risking rejection and disappointment from parents, adult siblings, or a favorite uncle. A wedding lets the pastor in the church they grew up in know affirmatively that yes, they have...
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differences (1998) 10 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 1998
... with his shit is mixed with envy for another man's column, the boy's early sense of accomplishment is mingled with disappointment. The faeces is not fetus but fetish. It never supplies the boy with what he lacks, but, rather, disavows the lack, simultaneously erasing and exaggerating what is missing...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 96–125.
Published: 01 September 2018
... not be reread as always already pathological. In the midst of what Bill Cosby killed, in my disappointment in his marital alibis, my concern over the young who are inevitably cast as liars in accounts of Michael Jackson’s relationships with children, and my rage over the dismissal of women who are allegedly...
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differences (2018) 29 (3): 86–106.
Published: 01 December 2018
... to abandon the miscellany plan and write a continuing narrative was motivated by the poor sales of the initial numbers of Master Humphrey’s Clock : “The surviving evidence from early 1840 indicates that Dickens did not think of writing a continuing story until his customers, disappointed that he wasn’t...
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differences (2006) 17 (3): 69–86.
Published: 01 December 2006
... of the flower girl’s fairy tale makeover, I will argue, belies a fable
of educational delusion and disappointment.
Therein lies the significance of Shaw’s seemingly gratuitous
title. In drawing an analogy between the phonetics...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 183–190.
Published: 01 May 2023
...” fantasy of a “terrifying loss of ego” (Bersani qtd. in Miller 261, 259 ). Ultimately, Bersani was realistic about m obile desire, and thus about the “somewhat disappointing enjoyments of fulfilled desires.” We can’t wish away the fact that both the world and our psychic economies “limit...
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differences (2003) 14 (3): 136–161.
Published: 01 December 2003
... is
burned to recover the accumulated gold mass. My father would often
say that in our family, we have gold on the floor, but we don’t know how
to pick it up. On the one hand, that can seem like a metaphor for the
disappointments...
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 69–78.
Published: 01 December 2023
... to signifiers. This intellectual desire, as a quest for clarity, will disappoint us along our circuit, encountering contradictions, impasses, and aporias—but this is unavoidable when analyzing the act. What is the hieroglyph? From our preliminary investigation, we can describe the Spillerian hieroglyph...
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differences (2016) 27 (1): 48–93.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... Is Arendt wrong to say that he was surely “disappointed” and even “deeply wounded” ( Eichmann 223–24)? Surely he was. What warrants the assumption that Arendt’s tone here is derisive? K-Zetnik came to testify and did not fulfill the obligation he himself wanted to meet. He claims to want to speak...
FIGURES
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 165–174.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and feeling the resonance of those sounds in his body, loosens the grip that his psychologization and indeed hominization has on him. They remind him that he can and should be less, beyond the theater of longing and loss, disappointment and aggression, in which he has himself been thrown. We might recall...
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