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Laughing with Medusa
Classical Myth and Feminist Thought
Edited by Vanda Zajko and Miriam Leonard
464 pages
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8 halftones
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216x138mm
978-0-19-927438-3
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Hardback
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12 January 2006
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- A groundbreaking study of the role of classical myth in feminist thought
- Encompasses a wide range of subject areas, including classics, history, science, psychoanalysis, philosophy, literature, and poetry
- Includes a specially commissioned work of fiction, `Iphigeneia's Wedding', by the poet Elizabeth Cook
Laughing with Medusa explores a series of interlinking questions, including: Does history's self-positioning as the successor of myth result in the exclusion of alternative narratives of the past? How does feminism exclude itself from certain historical discourses? Why has psychoanalysis placed myth at the centre of its explorations of the modern subject? Why are the Muses feminine? Do the categories of myth and politics intersect or are they mutually exclusive? Does feminism's recourse to myth offer a script of resistance or commit it to an ineffective utopianism? Covering a wide range of subject areas including
poetry, philosophy, science, history, and psychoanalysis as well as classics, this book engages with these questions from a truly interdisciplinary perspective. It includes a specially commisssioned work of fiction, `Iphigeneia's Wedding', by the poet Elizabeth Cook.Readership: Scholars and students of classics, English literature, women's studies, art history, philosophy, history, and philosophy of science.
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Edited by Vanda Zajko, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol, and Miriam Leonard, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol Contributors:
Rachel Bowlby, University College London
Elizabeth Cook
Lillian Doherty, University of Maryland
Katie Fleming, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London
Rowena Fowler, University of Bristol
Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge
Duncan F. Kennedy, University of Bristol
Miriam Leonard, University of Bristol
Genevieve Liveley, University of Bristol
Penelope Murray, University of Warwick
Ellen O'Gorman, University of Bristol
Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds
Alison Sharrock, University of Manchester
Efi Spentzou, Royal Holloway, London
Gregory Staley, University of Maryland
Vanda Zajko, University of Bristol
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"...a unique and well-timed volume...all of the contributions demonstrate originality, creativity and erudition." - Judith Fletcher, Bryn Mawr Classical Review "...a good and useful book." - Paul Allen Miller, Journal of Hellenic Studies
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Vanda Zajko and Miriam Leonard: Introduction
I. Myth and Psychoanalysis
Rachel Bowlby: Hope, Promise, Threaten, and Swear: Psychoanalytic Myths of the Future for Boys and Girls
Vanda Zajko: `Who are we when we read?' Keats, Klein, Cixous, and Elizabeth Cook's Achilles
Griselda Pollock: Beyond Oedipus: Feminist Thought, Psychoanalysis, and Mythical Figurations of the Feminine
2. Myth and Politics
Miriam Leonard: Lacan, Irigaray, and Beyond: Antigones and the Politics of Psychoanalysis
Simon Goldhill: Antigone and the Politics of Sisterhood
Katie Fleming: Fascism on Stage: Jean Anouilh's Antigone
3. Myth and History
Ellen O'Gorman: A Woman's History of Warfare
Greg Staley: Beyond glorious Ocean': Feminism, Myth, and America
4. Myth and Science
Duncan Kennedy: Atoms, Individuals, and Myths
Alison Sharrock: The Philosopher and the Mother Cow: Towards a Gendered Reading of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
Genevieve Liveley: Science Fictions and Cyber Myths: Or, Do Cyborgs Dream of Dolly the Sheep?
5. Myth and Poetry
Lillian Doherty: Putting the Women Back into the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
Penny Murray: Reclaiming the Muse
Efi Spentzou: Defying History: The Legacy of Helen in Modern Poetry
Rowena Fowler: `This tart fable': Daphne, Apollo, and Contemporary Women's Poetry
Elizabeth Cook: Iphigeneia's Wedding
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