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The Regime of the Brother: After the Patriarchy
Contributor(s): MacCannell, Juliet Flower (Author)
ISBN: 0415054354     ISBN-13: 9780415054355
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $44.60  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 1991
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Annotation: This book is one of the first attempts to challenge modernity on its own terms. Using the works of Lacan, Cixous and Freud, Juliet Flower MacCannell confronts the failure of modernity to bring about the social equality promised by the Enlightenment. On the verge of its destruction, the Patriarchy had reshaped itself into a new, and often more oppressive regime: The Regime of the Brother.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
Dewey: 305.42
LCCN: 90008982
Lexile Measure: 1350
Series: Opening Out: Feminism for Today
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.16" W x 9.2" (0.83 lbs) 240 pages
 
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The Regime of the Brother is one of the first attempts to challenge modernity on its own terms. Using the work of Lacan, Kristeva and Freud, Juliet MacCannell confronts the failure of modernity to bring about the social equality promised by the Enlightenment. On the verge of its destruction, the Patriarchy has reshaped itself into a new, and often more oppressive regime: that of the Brother.
Examining a range of literary and social texts - from Rousseau's Confessions to Richardson's Clarissa and from Stendhal's De L'Amour to James's What Maisie Knew and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea - MacCannell illustrates a history of the suppression of women, revealing the potential for a specifically feminine alternative.