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The Gendering of Melancholia: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolics of Loss

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The Gendering of Melancholia: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolics of Loss - Schiesari, Juliana
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The pantheon of renowned melancholics--from Shakespeare's Hamlet to Walter Benjamin--includes no women, an absence that in Juliana Schiesari's view points less to a dearth of unhappy women in patriarchal culture than to the lack of significance accorded...

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The Gendering of Melancholia: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolics of Loss 1992, Cornell University Press, Ithaca

ISBN-13: 9780801499715

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