TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zajko,Vanda
AU  - Leonard,Miriam
TI  - Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought
SN  - 9780199237944
AV  - PN56.M95 
U1  - 809/.915 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Oxford University Press, Incorporated
N1  - License restrictions may limit access; Scholarly & Professional; Oxford University Press, Incorporated
N2  - Annotation; Laughing with Medusaexplores 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
UR  - http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio9544395.001
UR  - http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio9544395.002
ER  -