Title: Laughing with Medusa : classical myth and feminist thought /
Authors: Zajko, Vanda.; Leonard, Miriam
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Mythology in literature.; Feminism and literature.
Abstract: "The essays in Laughing with Medusa explore the reception of classical myth within feminist writing from a truly interdisciplinary perspective."--Jacket.
Contents: 1. The Cronos complex : psychoanalytic myths of the future for boys and girls / Rachel Bowlby -- 2. Who are we when we read? : Keats, Klein, Cixous, and Elizabeth Cook's Achilles / Vanda Zajko -- 3. Beyond Oedipus : feminist thought, psychoanalysis, and mythical figurations of the feminine / Griselda Pollock -- 4. Lacan, Irigaray, and beyond : Antigones and the politics of psychoanalysis / Miriam Leonard -- 5. Antigone and the politics of sisterhood / Simon Goldhill -- 6. Fascism on stage : Jean Anouilh's Antigone / Katie Fleming -- 7. A woman's history of warfare / Ellen O'Gorman -- 8. Beyond glorious ocean : feminism, myth, and America / Gregory Staley -- 9. Atoms, individuals, and myths / Duncan Kennedy -- 10. The philosopher and the mother cow : towards a gendered reading of Lucretius, De rerum natura / Alison Sharrock -- 11. Science fictions and cyber myths, or, Do cyborgs dream of Dolly the sheep? / Genevieve Liveley -- 12. Putting the women back into the Hesiodic Catalogue of women / Lillian Doherty -- 13. Reclaiming the muse / Penny Murray -- 14. Defying history : the legend of Helen in modern Greek poetry / Efi Spentzou -- 15. This tart fable : Daphne, and Apollo in modern women's poetry / Rowena Fowler -- 16. Iphigeneia's wedding / Elizabeth Cook.