differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies articles from March 22 2005

differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies archives from March 22 2005

Feminism, fiction, and the utopian promise of Dracula.
March 22, 2005... To think utopically is to imagine how that insatiable being known as the modern individual might acquire the means to perfect and gratify him- or herself. A conceptual countermove always accompanies such utopian imaginings, as we must almost...

Of beauty, cruelty, and animal life: Hogarth's Baroque.
March 22, 2005... There is a curious and by now familiar moment in Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" that, by all appearances, such as we can know them, has little to do with William Hogarth. In order to delimit the...

What is a literary landscape? Immanence and the ethics of form.
March 22, 2005... Birds were screaming everywhere, the grass was almost too bright to look at, the sky was an even piercing blue. --O'Connor, "Greenleaf" 48 The sun came out, the entire landscape was radiant, and the Tyrolean women fell silent one after...

The afterlife of coverture: contract and gift in "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe".
March 22, 2005... The sturdy figure of the "worker," the artisan, in clean overalls, with a bag of tools and lunch-box, is always accompanied by the ghostly figure of his wife. --Pateman 131 Isn't that the ultimate homeland security--standing up and...

Did the Supreme Court come out in Bush v. Gore? Queer theory on the performance of the politics of shame.
March 22, 2005... Did the Supreme Court come out of the political closet in Bush v. Gore? By reading the opinion in Bush v. Gore as parallel to an open secret in a classic coming-out narrative, I question the Supreme Court's straight-faced insistence that...