Laughing with Medusa
Subtitle: classical myth and feminist thought
By: edited by Vanda Zajko and Miriam Leonard.
Contributors: Zajko, Vanda.; Leonard, Miriam.
Series: Classical presences
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
Subjects: Mythology in literature; Feminism and literature
Description: "The essays in Laughing with Medusa explore the reception of classical myth within feminist writing from a truly interdisciplinary perspective."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The Cronos complex: psychoanalytic myths of the future for boys and girls / Rachel Bowlby; title: 2. Who are we when we read?: Keats, Klein, Cixous, and Elizabeth Cooks Achilles / Vanda Zajko; title: 3. Beyond Oedipus: feminist thought, psychoanalysis, and mythical figurations of the feminine / Griselda Pollock; title: 4. Lacan, Irigaray, and beyond: Antigones and the politics of psychoanalysis / Mariam Leonard; title: 5. Antigone and the politics of sisterhood / Simon Goldhill; title: 6. Fascism on stage: Jean Anouilhs Antigone / Katie Fleming; title: 7. A womans history of warfare / Ellen O'Gorman; title: 8. Beyond glorious ocean: feminism, myth, and America / Greg Staley; title: 9. Atoms, individuals, and myths / Duncan Kennedy; title: 10. The philosopher and the mother cow: towards a gendered reading of Lucretius, De rerum natura / Alison Sharrock; title: 11. Science fictions and cyber myths, or, Do cyborgs dream of Dolly the sheep? / Genevieve Liveley; title: 12. Putting the women back into the Hesiodic catalogue of women / Lillian Doherty; title: 13. Reclaiming the muse / Penny Murray; title: 14. Defying history: the legend of Helen in modern Greek poetry / Efi Spentzou; title: 15. This tart fable: Daphne, Apollo, and modern womens poetry / Rowena Fowler; title: 16. Iphigeneias wedding / Elizabeth Cook.