Este texto es una intervención en el debate que mantuvieron las teóricas del feminismo Nancy FRaser y Judith Butler. Ese intercambio polémico, que abre una serie de interrogantes en torno a la potencia crítica de la teoría feminista, es aquí abordado desde las implicancias políticas de las refexiones de las autoras para pensar la cuestió de la unidad de la izquierda en la actual coyuntura, y el lugar del feminismo y la teoría quuer en la necesaria transformación política y social.
This paper intends to analyze the representation of girlhood as a liminal space in three novels by Shirley Jackson: The Bird’s Nest (1954), The Haunting of Hill House (1959) and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962). Bearing in mind how nuclear fears and national identity are configured around the ideal of a safe domestic space in US postwar culture, the paper explores cultural anxieties about teenage girls who refuse to conform to normative femininity, following Teresa de Lauretis’s conception of women’s coming-of-age as “consenting to femininity” (1984). I will argue that Jackson criticizes the rigid possibilities for women at this time, and I will show how her representations of deviant femininity refuse and subvert the discourse of the nuclear family and, therefore, of the nation.
In this article I analyse the deconstruction of the public/private dichotomy in the city of Paris in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning Midnight (1939). Through the exploration of Sasha’s aimless wandering through Paris in her failed quest for romantic love, this paper aims to explore Rhys’s Paris as a city which is hostile to women who fail to perform conventional standards of femininity. These standards are in turn encouraged and set by the promise of happiness; thus, the mimicry of femininity—whether intentional or not—exposes ongoing power dynamics in gender roles, the construction of the bodies of others through political ideals of happiness and love, and the subversive potential in Rhys’s novel, even if the protagonist is crushed at the end by the private side of the emerging totalitarian regimes on the eve of the Second World War.
El presente artículo analiza el poemario Vida a vida (1932), de Concha Méndez, desde la perspectiva de la escritura femenina en la vanguardia española. Tras analizar la representación de temas como el amor o la existencia, se argumenta, siguiendo a Altamirano, Quance o Capdevila-Argüelles, que la poesía de Concha Méndez propone una revisión de las vanguardias a partir de la expresión del sujeto femenino moderno que emerge a principios del siglo XX.
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