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...Philip G. Hadlock Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Philip G. Hadlock NARRATING THE GENDER RIDDLE: THE CASE OF MAUPASSANT'S YVETTE, "M. JOCASTE," AND "L'ERMITE" Literary theory in general, and the various idioms of feminist theory in particular, have frequently...

...Holly Tucker Duggan , Anne. E. Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France . Newark : University of Delaware Press , 2005 . Pp. 288 . Copyright © 2008 The Trustees of Columbia University 2008 Book Reviews Duggan, Anne. E...

...Joseph Harris Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 joseplJ Harris NOVEL UPBRINGINGS: EDUCATION AND GENDER IN CHOISY AND LA FAYETTE Reflecting on the various developnlents in novelistic convention and vraisenlblance that had taken place in the half-century between...

...Juliette Cherbuliez Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Juliette Cherbuliez ON LETTING SLEEPING BLONDS LIE: GENDER, LEISURE LITERATURE, AND THE IMAGINATION IN FONTENELLE On dit de M. de Fontenelle qu'a la place du creur, II a un second cerveau. Charlotte-Elisabeth Alsse...

... as a gendered strategy of modesty, this article shows instead that her equivocal and even parodic, burlesque way of intervening in the two quarrels is consistent with her skepticism and presents readers with a hermeneutical challenge that disrupts the rhetorical logic of a quarrel. Deshoulières’s interventions...

...Emma Herdman Abstract A Renaissance querelle was primarily litigious. As such, it was heavily gendered: women, who were culturally expected to be conciliatory, not argumentative, were excluded from the law courts. This article uses the example of Madeleine des Roches—a widow, and so legally...

... art of ambiguity: through her involvement with the first readers of La Rochefoucauld’s Maximes and her relations with the nuns of Port-Royal, Sablé aims to preserve her own viewpoint and her friendships at the same time. These ambiguities lead to the hypothesis that she faced gendered limits...

... around authorial identity, gender-based judgments, the role of periodicals, and the literary construction of quarrels both as they occur and after they are over. Mythology and learning as well as poetry are, in the writer’s view, the preserve of the male of the species. The reference to women writers...

... might inspire a queer gender performance; she says that misogynistic texts have made Christine like a cross-dresser: "Tu ressembles Ie fol, dont la truffe parle, qui en dormant au molin fu revestu de la robe d'une femme" (1.2; "You resemble the fool in the prank who was dressed in women's clothes while...

... to interpret her experience, and to empower herself and those who are suffering from the same condition, asserting that deafness, like any other physical impairment, is not a social or religious punishment but rather a “privileged” condition. deafness gender impairment medicine religion Deafness...

... an impressive array of medievalist feminist scholarship.3 In 1986, the first issue of the Medieval Feminist Newsletter appeared; it still exists, under the name Medievalist Feminist Forum. In 1988, Elizabeth Archibald, Simon Gaunt and I held the first "Medieval Studies and Gender" conference at King's College...

... the harm that traditional gender hierarchies do to women. What specific patriarchal ideologies and practices do not just for but also to particular kinds of men has garnered far less attention. But according to a supposedly kinder and gentler version of patriarchy popular in men s writings to and for women...

... of Columbia. The previous one, which may also have been the first one, took place over thirty years ago, in November 1984. Organized by Nancy K. Miller and Michael Riffaterre, it was one of the then ongoing series of annual Poetics colloquia and gave rise to the influential volume Poetics of Gender, edited...

... about ethnicity and regional differences, racializing discourses connected to French colonial history, the shifting role of the aristocracy and its relation to gender deviance, and the multiple forms-from high to low culture-in which sexual relations among women were represented. Lucey's readings...

... relation to gender deviance, and the multiple forms-from high to low culture-in which sexual relations among women were represented. Lucey's readings of Gide and Proust are as original and surprising as those of Colette, and they serve to shift long-established paradigms of reading these well-known...

... question of whether certain literary characters represent one of the sexual deviances typically recognized in the nineteenth century and, if so, in what particular way. Others have explored gender and power, frequently focusing on the misogyny prevalent in decadent literature. Yet another faction has...

... sexualities, that girth can have a relation to gender and sexuality, that sexualities such as her own and that of this couple apparently are sometimes best understood by way of representations from the world of literature (Genet s 1. Il est bien que vous n aimiez pas comme je vous aime puisque ainsi je ne me...

... ” our guiding framework, this issue hopes to open this conversation. In part this gap in scholarship can be accounted for by the difficulty entailed in establishing which texts by women might constitute an intervention in a quarrel: the gendered norms of early modern discourse meant that women were...

... the immutability and "naturalness" of categories in the New World. As such, Beauchene depicts New France as a privileged space for the problematizing and questioning of the ancien regime's traditional hierarchies-either gender or ethnically based. French Sauvages By the time Beauchene appeared on the Parisian book...

... range from special issues of L'Arc, Yale French Studies and Critical Inquiry, to edited volumes like the New Feminist Criticism, the Poetics of Gender, and Conjuring, among others. In her book, as in today's paper, Jane Gallop sees the early 1980s as the moment during which feminist literary criticism...