Women, Love, and Power: Literary and Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Elaine Baruch is not only among the most quiet-voiced and fair-minded of feminist writers. She is also among the most far-ranging in her scholarship, equally at ease with the writers of the Renaissance and Freud, the medieval troubadours, and our contemporary polemicists. . . instructive, absorbing, and persuasive.
—Diana Trilling
A lively mind is at work here and a keen and witty writer too.
—Irving HoweThis is a fine collection of essays. . . making many imaginative conjectures and amusing connections.
—Times Literary SupplementIn these essays what emerges is a history of romantic love. . . Highly recommended.—Library Journal
Arguing that romantic love need not be a tool of women's oppression, feminist critic Baruch. . . contends that unacknowledged male fantasies about love motivate much literature by men. . . rewarding, provocative.—Publishers Weekly
Utilizing both Freudian and non-Freudian psychoanalysis as well as feminist criticism, Baruch examines literary works by women and men from medieval and Romantic periods as well as cultural observations on the twentieth century and how they have influenced attitudes toward love.

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Women, Love, and Power: Literary and Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Elaine Baruch is not only among the most quiet-voiced and fair-minded of feminist writers. She is also among the most far-ranging in her scholarship, equally at ease with the writers of the Renaissance and Freud, the medieval troubadours, and our contemporary polemicists. . . instructive, absorbing, and persuasive.
—Diana Trilling
A lively mind is at work here and a keen and witty writer too.
—Irving HoweThis is a fine collection of essays. . . making many imaginative conjectures and amusing connections.
—Times Literary SupplementIn these essays what emerges is a history of romantic love. . . Highly recommended.—Library Journal
Arguing that romantic love need not be a tool of women's oppression, feminist critic Baruch. . . contends that unacknowledged male fantasies about love motivate much literature by men. . . rewarding, provocative.—Publishers Weekly
Utilizing both Freudian and non-Freudian psychoanalysis as well as feminist criticism, Baruch examines literary works by women and men from medieval and Romantic periods as well as cultural observations on the twentieth century and how they have influenced attitudes toward love.

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Women, Love, and Power: Literary and Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Women, Love, and Power: Literary and Psychoanalytic Perspectives

by Elaine Baruch
Women, Love, and Power: Literary and Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Women, Love, and Power: Literary and Psychoanalytic Perspectives

by Elaine Baruch

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Elaine Baruch is not only among the most quiet-voiced and fair-minded of feminist writers. She is also among the most far-ranging in her scholarship, equally at ease with the writers of the Renaissance and Freud, the medieval troubadours, and our contemporary polemicists. . . instructive, absorbing, and persuasive.
—Diana Trilling
A lively mind is at work here and a keen and witty writer too.
—Irving HoweThis is a fine collection of essays. . . making many imaginative conjectures and amusing connections.
—Times Literary SupplementIn these essays what emerges is a history of romantic love. . . Highly recommended.—Library Journal
Arguing that romantic love need not be a tool of women's oppression, feminist critic Baruch. . . contends that unacknowledged male fantasies about love motivate much literature by men. . . rewarding, provocative.—Publishers Weekly
Utilizing both Freudian and non-Freudian psychoanalysis as well as feminist criticism, Baruch examines literary works by women and men from medieval and Romantic periods as well as cultural observations on the twentieth century and how they have influenced attitudes toward love.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814711996
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 10/01/1992
Series: Literary and Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Pages: 290
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

ELAINE HOFFMAN BARUCH, who has a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, is a professor of English and women's studies at York College of the City University of New york. She is the author of numerous articles on literature, psychoanalysis, and women, and is the coauthor of Women Analyze Women: In France, England, and the United States (with Lucienne Serrano) and coeditor of Women in Search of Utopia and Embryos, Ethics, and Women's Rights.
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