File spoon-archives/french-feminism.archive/french-feminism_1996/96-06-15.140, message 231


Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 12:19:28 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alice Webster-Petley <aw19-AT-st-andrews.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Irigaray and Orlando



Caroline Bainbridge wrote:

> I am studying for a Ph.D at University of 
> Sheffield, U.K.  My thesis is attempting to show how Irigaray's work 
> is directly relelvant to feminist film theory and criticism.  My 
> textual analysis focuses on _Orlando_ and _The Piano_, though 
> originally I had wanted to include Almodovar's _High Heels_ too.  If 
> you have time, please do drop me a line about your thoughts.
> 
> 

We are currently taking a women in modern fiction course, reading Woolf's 
Orlando, Carter's Passion of New Eve, Wittig's Les Guerilleres, Chawaf's 
Retable la Reverie.  Reading Carter in conjunction with Irigaray is 
proving most enlightening and disturbing: my own essay on this subject 
was titled "a womb of one's own: patriarchy beyond the boundary of body", 
my colleague's "Female impersonation and male desire: Ben Jelloun's 
L'enfant de sable & Carter's New Eve".
We would really like to know what to do with Orlando in this context, 
neither one of us having found it particularly radical.

We have been finding Irigaray useful in her rigorous grappling with 
problematic theorists such as Lacan and Freud.  

We look forward to hearing your comments.

Stokely Webster aw19-AT-st-andrews.ac.uk  and
Laurel Taylor lat-AT-st-andrews.ac.uk




   

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