Misogyny, misandry, and misanthrophy

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The work Misogyny, misandry, and misanthrophy represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Misogyny, misandry, and misanthrophy

Contributor

• Bloch, R. Howard
• Ferguson, Frances, 1947-
• Ferguson, Frances, 1947-

Subject

• Misandry in art
• Misandry in literature
• Misanthropy in art
• Misanthropy in literature
• Misogyny in art
• Misogyny in literature
• Sexism in literature
• Women in literature

Language

eng

Summary

These essays, originally comprising an issue of Representations, explore the relation between gender, eroticism, and violence through close analysis of a range of both high and popular cultural forms, from R. Howard Bloch on medieval theology to Carol Clover on contemporary slasher films. Does misogyny differ from misandry? Can author intention be separated from social context? Do good women counterbalance or reenforce the misogyny of negative examples? Is an obsession with women itself misogynistic? These questions are approached from various angles by Joel Fineman, Charles Bernheimer, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Frances Ferguson, Naomi Schor and Gillian Brown. In sum, the authors detail not only the ways in which gender is represented, but also the changes to which representation subjects questions of sexual difference. Publisher's description

Cataloging source

UkLiU

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

Representations. No. 20; Fall 1987