in:
New York:
1997
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181 - 198 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Abel, Elizabeth info |
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| Jahr: | 1997 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Many feminists have criticized psychoanalysis for its failure to address race and class specificity and thus for its privileging of a conception of gender based on the white, middle-class, nuclear family. Abel acknowledges the merits of this critique. Nevertheless, she maintains that psychoanalysis is capable of accommmodating race and class difference, and she discusses two texts in which psychoanalysis is capable of accommodating race and class difference, and she discusses two texts in which psychoanalysis is used effectively to situate gender in the context for race and class. In "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book", Hortense Spillers uses Lacanian theory to analyze slavery and to draw out its implications with respect to gender. She documents a number of ways in which gender was deconstructed under slavery. These include the slave mother's centrality to kinship relations as a result of the suppression of the African-American father's name, the stark contrast between the culture's figuring of the slave woman as a breeder and the white woman as a revered mother, and the slave mother's dynamic role in the formation of her son's subjectivity. In "Landscape for a good woman: a story of two lives", Carolyn Kay Steedman explores some relations between class and gender. Two stories about childhood - one about an encounter between her fahter and a forest-keeper and the other about an encounter between her mother and a health official - displace the sexualized Oedipal account of gender formation and replace it with an account of class, authority, power, and gender. Steedman's text also interrogates the emphatic, nurturant conception of mothering that is associated with middle-class values and with object relations psychoanalytic theory by contrasting this image with a conception of purely material mothering that originates in the working class. Steedman's ambivalence about these alternatives is poignantly and subversively expressed through a pair of fairy tales. Abel concludes that, although feminists must be wary of race and class bias in psychoanalytic theory, psychoanalytic discourse has great potential as a medium in which feminists can articulate and negotiate race, class, and gender boundaries. (D.T.M.) | |
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