February 5, 1999

Feminism, Freud, and Popular Culture

By MARI JO BUHLE

Cross the threshold to your local English department or women's-studies program, and you are likely to encounter strong feelings about the relationship of feminism to psychoanalysis. Since the mid-1970s, groups of feminist scholars, chiefly in the humanities, have turned to various kinds of psychoanalytic theory to interpret representations of the difference between the sexes. For example, literary scholars

Print Subscription

Digital Subscription

Already have an account? Log In Now.