The regime of the brother : after the patriarchy / Juliet Flower MacCannell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacCannell, Juliet Flower, 1943-

Flower Maccannell J Staff, Corporate Author.

Series:

Opening out.

Opening out

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--History--Modern period, 1600-.

Women.

Social history.

Women in literature.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Regime of the Brother is one of the first attempts to challenge modernity on its own terms. Using the work of Lacan, Kristeva and Freud, Juliet MacCannell confronts the failure of modernity to bring about the social equality promised by the Enlightenment. On the verge of its destruction, the Patriarchy has reshaped itself into a new, and often more oppressive regime: that of the Brother. Examining a range of literary and social texts - from Rousseau's Confessions to Richardson's Clarissa and from Stendhal's De L'Amour to James's What Maisie Knew<

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series preface; Acknowledgements; Note on passages translated; Introduction; The primal scene of modernity; Modernity as the absence of the other: the general self; Egomimesis; Feminine Eros: from the bourgeois state to the nuclear state; The end(s) of love in the western world; The reconstruction of mothering; After the new Regime; Notes; Passages translated; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [184]-211) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-93782-2

1-134-93783-0

1-280-19360-3

0-203-32095-6

0-203-02184-3

9780203021842

OCLC:

252712768