Feminizing the Fetish : Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France /
Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French culture, and in particular the theme of ""female fetishism"" in the context of the feminine culture of mourning, collecting, and dressing
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Ithaca :
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1991.
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Table of Contents:
- Fetishism in theory: Marx, Freud, Baudrillard
- The epistemology of perversion: from pathology to pathography
- Cabinet secrets: peep shows, prostitution, and bric-a-bracomania in the fin-de-siecle interior
- Unmasking the masquerade: fetishism and femininity from the Goncourt Brothers to Joan Riviere
- Splitting hairs: female fetishism and postpartum sentimentality in Maupassant's fiction
- Mystical pathography: a case of maso-fetishism in the Goncourts' Madame Gervaisais
- Hysterical vision: the scopophilic garden from Monet to Mirbeau
- Master narratives/servant texts: representing the maid from Flaubert to Freud
- Stigma indelebile: Zola, Gide, and the deviant detail.