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Gender, Theory, and the Canon
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Hardcover
from Univ of Wisconsin Pr (July 1, 1991); titled "Gender, Theory and the Canon"
9780299129200 | details & prices | 6.00 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $37.50
About: The author of this book takes to the battlefield of current debates about humanities education with a clear strategic goal: to reread five texts canonical to modern European intellectual history from a perspective that is profoundly informed by awareness of gender issues - Descartes' "Meditations", Marx's "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844", Flaubert's "Madame Bovary", Freud's "Beyond the Pleasure Principle", and Nietzsche's "The Gay Science".
Paperback
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from Univ of Wisconsin Pr (June 1, 1991)
9780299129248 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $14.95
About: The author of this witty, forthright book takes to the battlefield of current debates about humanities education with impressive intellectual armament and a clear strategic goal:  to reread five texts canonical to modern European intellectual history from a perspective that is profoundly informed by an awareness of gender issues.