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Feminist Issues Ser.: Androgyny and the Denial of Difference by Kari Weil (1992, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Virginia Press

ISBN-100813914051

ISBN-139780813914053

eBay Product ID (ePID)231697

Product Key Features

Number of Pages224 Pages

Publication NameAndrogyny and the Denial of Difference

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1992

SubjectEuropean / French, Feminist, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality)

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Psychology

AuthorKari Weil

SeriesFeminist Issues Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN92-016774

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal155.3/34

SynopsisThis book traces the long and complex history of the androgyne throughout Western aesthetics, philosophy, mythology and literature, from Plato to contemporary feminist theory, with particular attention given to the Romantic period. It notes that from the classical vision of the androgyne as a symbol of primordial totality and oneness created out of a union of opposed forces to Freud's theory of the libido, the figure has functioned as a conservative, even a misogynistic, ideal. Kari Weil shows that, rather than being a synthesis of male and female, the androgyne has been a construction of patriarchal ideology that has served to establish sexual, aesthetic and racial hierarchies.

LC Classification NumberBF692.2.W45 1992