Feminizing the fetish : psychoanalysis and narrative obsession in turn-of-the-century France /
Feminising the fetish
Emily Apter.
- xviii, 273 pages ; 25 cm
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.
French fiction--History and criticism--19th century French fiction--History and criticism--20th century Obsessive-compulsive disorder in literature Femininity in literature Psychoanalysis and literature--France Fetishism in literature Narration (Rhetoric) Women in literature