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n ■ Shoshana Felman Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/whatdoeswomanwanOOOOfelm What Does a Woman Want? What Does a Woman Want? READING AND SEXUAL DIFFERENCE /» Shoshana Felman THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS BALTIMORE AND LONDON © i993The Johns Hopkins University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 02 01 00 99 98 97 96 95 94 5 4 3 2 The Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4319 The Johns Hopkins Press Ltd., London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Felman, Shoshana. What does a woman want? : reading and sexual difference/Shoshana Felman p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8018-4617-X (alk. paper).—ISBN 0-8018-4620-X (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Feminist literary criticism. 2. Feminism and literature. I. Tide. PN98.W64F32 1993 801 '.95'o82—dc2o 92-47484 A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Contents 1 What Does a Woman Want? The Question of Autobiography and the Bond of Reading i (Postface) 2 Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy (Balzac, “Adieu”) 3 Textuality and the Riddle of Bisexuality 41 (Balzac, “The Girl with the Golden Eyes”) 4 Competing Pregnancies: The Dream from which Psychoanalysis Proceeds (Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams) vi / Contents 5 With Whom Do You Believe Your Lot Is Cast? Woolf, de Beauvoir, Rich, and the Struggle for Autobiography 121 {Afterword) Notes 153 Index 169
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