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...A. W. Strouse Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 A. ~ Strouse MISOGYNISTS AS QUEERS IN LE LWRE DE LA CITE DES DAMESt Christine de Pizan, in Le Livre de La Cite des Dames (1405), insinuates that misogyny is, as it were, a little queer. At the beginning of the City...

... in this movement, Joris Karl Huysmans and Oscar Wilde, with the works of their precursors, Barbey d'Aurevilly and Baudelaire. The dandy's reappearance is seen as a direct reaction to contemporaneous positivist conceptualizations of corporality. She regards the androgyny, same-sex sexuality, or misogynist attitudes...

... and communicative function” (45), in her essay, with Fiona McAlinden and Kathy O’Leary, on women’s use of tag questions. In addition, Grande shows that seventeenth-century women novelists similarly advanced apparently misogynistic discourse to serve a contrary communicative end (129–32). 19. The anecdote...

... completeness, his political stature, etc. Yet amid the strength of Boutin's documentation, a weakness begins to show: where 19th-century critics' stereotypes of the feminine are characterized by the author as misogynist, those same stereotypes, rephrased and positively valorized under Julia Kristeva's pen...

...-century critics' stereotypes of the feminine are characterized by the author as misogynist, those same stereotypes, rephrased and positively valorized under Julia Kristeva's pen, are so accepted as to become the basis for much of the study's theoretic stance. Boutin describes the misogynist position thus...

... pretensions to literary glory: “Voulez-vous ressembler aux Muses? / Inspirez, mais n’écrivez pas” (Le Brun 1: 369). The traditional misogynistic sentiment could have gone unnoticed but, as Christine Planté notes, Le Brun hit a raw nerve: “Il pose là les termes d’une contradiction dans laquelle les femmes...

... shows how she subtly molds the historical tale of Lorenzo de Medici in order to explore a theme of personal predilection: the problem of the hidden violence within male homo-social bonds. Similarly, David LaGuardia studies her rewriting of the misogynistic tale of the one-eyed cuckold, and its...

... to philosophy and intellectual life, and so to their engagement with questions under dispute, both in France and beyond, we are yet to conceptualize, in terms other than negative and misogynist, a woman who engaged in querelles , or what we are calling a “ femme querelleure .” By making French “ querelles...

... recent critical assessments have by and large underscored the importance of Sablé’s contributions to literary and cultural history, they have had to overcome the weight of dismissive misogynist judgments beginning in the seventeenth century. Describing her time in the Port-Royal de Paris convent...

... Enide less as a discrete character than as a misogynistic fantasy of what wifely discretion might look like. 17 This is problematic for several reasons. One, because if feminists like Luce Irigaray have shown how “the most fundamental operation of phallocentrism is to erase difference...

... Eckhart produce the figural presence of an unattainable and unknowable God. Troubadours never actually want to possess their object of their desire because that would end the song. For Howard Bloch, love as dispossession in courtly lyric constitutes the “global paradox of the misogynistic articulation...

... many have lauded her for promoting an Algerian female solidarity that resists Western feminist arrogance, others have critiqued her for, on the contrary, reinforcing colonialist depictions of Algerian "culture" and "tradition" as patriarchal and misogynistic. These tensions are borne out in her final...

... and reads them in the same way that other misogynistic Belle Epoque critics read the "threat" posed by the legions of women writers publishing during this period. As Mesch points out, it is revealing that Lorrain chose to ridicule women writers in particular, among all the different professional women...

... demonstrates a selective reading of the kind Christine de Pizan warned about, embracing the work's most misogynistic statements at face value, without regard for their context or the credibility of the character speaking. Four of the chapters include manuscript images, in the body of the text or at the end...

.... The most interesting aspect of this recurrent question is not the quality of the answers (at best mere speculations about Millet's motives, often said to be purely financial, at worst prurient and misogynistic personal comments about her sexuality), but the ironic parallel with her representation of female...

... racist and misogynist prejudices? Back to love. It is impossible to talk about the seventeenth century without mentioning passion, “galanterie,” but also “préciosité.” There also, I would like to call into question some of the prejudices attached to “l’âge galant.” To explain to students...

... was featured as an exercise in a French grammar book for English-speaking students, published in 1768. With the space for verbs left blank (Perrin 175–78). But even though a misogynistic bias singles out “angry” women of letters for special blame, we should remember that eighteenth-century historians...

.... This study begins by comparing how Marie constructs and then modifies her representations of the werewolf, the baron, and his wife; moves to an examination of how the interplay between these characters tilts the lay's shifting table of alliances; and concludes by assessing the text's misogynistic denouement...

..., vis-a-vis the courtly poetic code (and thus vis-a-vis Machaut's theory of truthful expression), when he produces his misogynistic ballad comparing Toute Belle to Fortune. This ballad is provoked when Guillaume hears of a malicious rumor. It seems that while he's been busy giving beautiful form to his...

..., egolstes et ardents [ ] Rachilde [ ] n'a guere reflechi; elle a ecrit tout au trot de sa plume. "45 The female incapable of intellectual purpose, governed by her whims and humours, is a misogynistic cliche not only of the time, but very much of Barres' writings. In a letter to Rachilde (March 24, 1885), he...