Feminine/Masculine and Representation examines important debates about gender and sexuality, representation and cultural politics, and provides an introduction to some of the fundamental issues of gender studies, critical theory and cultural studies.

IllustrationsContributorsPreface1. Introduction2. The problematic of 'the feminine' in contemporary French philosophy: Foucault and Irigaray3. Modernity, rationality and 'the masculine'4. Inscriptions and body-maps: representations and the corporeal5. The discursive construction of Christ's body in the later Middle Ages: resistance and autonomy6. 'The feminine' as a semiotic construct: Zola's Une Page d'Amour7. Deconstructions of masculinity and femininity in the films of Marguerite Duras8. Cross-dressing in fiction: literary history and the cultural construction of sexuality9. Homosexualities: fiction, reading and moral training10. Soap opera as gender training: teenage girls and TV11. Gender, class and power: text, process and production in Strindberg's Miss Julie12. Scientific constructions, cultural productions: scientific narratives of sexual attraction13 The privileging of representation and the marginalising of the interpersonal: a metaphor (and more) for contemporary gender relationsAPPENDIXESA. Extra illustrating material for chapter 5B. French-English passages from Zola's Une Page d'Amour illustrating chapter 6C. Strindberg's Miss Julie: supporting material for chapter 11EndnotesBibliographyIndex