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Feminizing the fetish : psychoanalysis and narrative obsession in turn-of-the-century France / Emily Apter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1991Description: xviii, 273 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0801499526
  • 9780801499524
  • 0801497574
  • 9780801497575
  • 0801426537
  • 9780801426537
Other title:
  • Feminising the fetish
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.77 22
LOC classification:
  • PQ653 .A77 1991
Contents:
Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Engendering Fetishism -- The Medical Origins of Sexual Fetishism -- Masquerading Women, Pathologized Men: Cross-Dressing, Fetishism, and the Theory of Perversion, 1882-1935 -- Fetishism and Decadence: Salome's Severed Heads -- Remy de Gourmont with Freud: Fetishism and Patriotism -- Fetishism and Its Ironies -- Lesbian Fetishism? -- Magic Capital -- Fetishism and Materialism: The Limits of Theory in Marx -- The Point Is to (Ex)Change It: Reading Capital, Rhetorically -- Marxian Value Theory and the Problem of the Subject: The Role of Commodity Fetishism -- Maleficium: State Fetishism -- Scopic Fixations -- The Art of Fetishism: Notes on Dutch Still Life -- The Legs of the Countess -- Reading Racial Fetishism: The Photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe -- Amor nel Cor -- The Smell of Money: Mary Kelly in Conversation with Emily Apter -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-266) and index.

Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Engendering Fetishism -- The Medical Origins of Sexual Fetishism -- Masquerading Women, Pathologized Men: Cross-Dressing, Fetishism, and the Theory of Perversion, 1882-1935 -- Fetishism and Decadence: Salome's Severed Heads -- Remy de Gourmont with Freud: Fetishism and Patriotism -- Fetishism and Its Ironies -- Lesbian Fetishism? -- Magic Capital -- Fetishism and Materialism: The Limits of Theory in Marx -- The Point Is to (Ex)Change It: Reading Capital, Rhetorically -- Marxian Value Theory and the Problem of the Subject: The Role of Commodity Fetishism -- Maleficium: State Fetishism -- Scopic Fixations -- The Art of Fetishism: Notes on Dutch Still Life -- The Legs of the Countess -- Reading Racial Fetishism: The Photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe -- Amor nel Cor -- The Smell of Money: Mary Kelly in Conversation with Emily Apter -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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