Feminine Sentences

This new book integrates material drawn from a variety of sources - feminist theory, cultural and literary analysis, sociology and art history - in an original discussion of women's relationship to modern and post-modern culture.

The essays in the book challenge the continuing separation of sociological from textual analysis in cultural (and feminist) theory and enquiry. They address critically the question of women's writing, exploring the idea that women may begin to define their own lives and construct their identities in a patriarchal culture through the very process of writing. They also present a cogent defence of a feminist cultural politics, including a politics of the body.

Acknowledgements Illustrations.

1. Prospects and problems for a postmodern feminism: an introduction.

2. The culture of separate spheres: the role of culture in nineteenth-century public and private life.

3. The invisible flaneuse: women and the literature of modernity.

4. Feminism and modernism.

5. Women's knowledge and women's art.

6. Postmodern theory and feminist art practice.

7. Texts and institutions: problems of feminist criticism.

8. Reinstating corporeality: feminism and body politics.

Index.

'Janet Wolff ... sets out critical positions clearly and succinctly while retaining a sense of their complexity.' Women: A Cultural Review

Janet Wolff is the author of Feminine Sentences: Essays on Women and Culture, published by Wiley. This new book integrates material drawn from a variety of sources - feminist theory, cultural and literary analysis, sociology and art history - in an original discussion of women's relationship to modern and post-modern culture.

The essays in the book challenge the continuing separation of sociological from textual analysis in cultural (and feminist) theory and enquiry. They address critically the question of women's writing, exploring the idea that women may begin to define their own lives and construct their identities in a patriarchal culture through the very process of writing. They also present a cogent defence of a feminist cultural politics, including a politics of the body.