She Changes by Intrigue: Irony, Femininity and Feminism

· Genus Series Book 6 · Rodopi
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Contemporary feminist theorists have implied a special affinity between women and irony because of their double' relation to the prevailing order of things: both speak from within this order while remaining other' to it in some way. Irony can be regarded as the obvious mode in which a feminist might speak, as it reflects her relation to the patriarchal structure while refusing to validate the truth of the current sexual hierarchy. She Changes by Intrigue undertakes the first sustained analysis of the parallels between irony, femininity and feminism. By retracing the association of these terms through canonical and contemporary continental philosophy, the book seeks to illuminate a notion of sexual agency that has until now remained shadowy, in spite of its prevalence...

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Lydia Rainford is a Lecturer and Junior Research Fellow at St. Hugh's College, the University of Oxford. She is the co-editor of Literature and Visual Technologies: Writing After Cinema(Palgrave, Macmillan, 2003).

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