Fair Sex, Savage Dreams
Subtitle: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780822326113
Subjects: Cultural studies; Women and psychoanalysis; Movements - Psychoanalysis; Gender Studies; Psychology; Women's Studies - General; Minority Studies - General; Gender Studies/Feminist Theory; Race and Ethnicity; Human Sexuality; Psychoanalysis and racism
First sentence: One of the most frequently cited essays of the great debate of the 1920s is Joan Riviere's 1929 "Womanliness as a Masquerade," which has repeatedly been deployed for its potential to deconstruct an essentialized notion of femininity and characterize it as a masquerade in a phallic economy of desire that may or may not hide a repressed but potentially destabilizing female eroticism.