differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies articles from March 1999

differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies archives from March 1999

Purebreds and Amazons: Saying Things with Horses in Late-Nineteenth-Century France.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1999... Horses and Women on show For the past three years, one of the hits of French theater and a highlight of the Avignon Festival has featured horses in its leading roles. "Zingaro" consists of some twenty equines who, mounted by riders of...

Just Fooling: Paper, Money, Poe.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1999... [ldots] in regard to Kafka, we can no longer speak of wisdom. Only the products of its decay remain. There are two: one is rumor about true things [ldots]; the other [ldots] is folly [Torheit]--which, to be sure, has utterly squandered the...

Marriage Acts: Stages in the Transformation of Modern Nuptial Culture.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1999... Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1753 established the English civil matrimonial code. It decreed that the only valid marriage was one "performed by an ordained priest according to the Anglican Liturgy in a parish church or public chapel of...

Unbearable Witness: Toward a Politics of Listening.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1999... On Wednesday, 6 December 1989, around 5 P.M., Marc Lepine (ne Gamil Roderigue Gharbi) dressed in hunting garb entered a classroom in the Ecole Polytechnique. Disturbing a presentation by Erie Chavarie, he waved a .22-caliber rifle and ordered...

Ferenczi's Dangerous Proximities: Telepathy, Psychosis, and the Real Event.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1999... In the abridged version of the Freud/Jung Letters, the first mention of the analyst Sandor Ferenczi refers the reader to the following footnote: "Sandor Ferenczi (1873-1933), Hungarian ventriloquist; introduced by Jung, he became Freud's...

Telling the Tale of a Body Devoured By Narrative.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1999... It has become rather commonplace to recognize the emasculating effects of colonization upon the colonized while simultaneously acknowledging colonialism's role in furthering the oppression of colonized women. In the first instance, we take...