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This study by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto explores the poetic and narrative strategies twentieth-century Brazilian women writers use to achieve new forms of representation of the female body, sexuality, and desire. Female writers discussed include: Gilka Machado, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Marcia Denser, and Marina Colasanti. While creating new forms, these writers are also deconstructing cultural myths of femininity and female behavior. In order to understand these myths, the book also presents new readings of some male-authored canonical novels by Jose de Alencar, Machado de Assis, Manuel Antonio de Almeida, and Aluisio Azevedo. The specific focus on female sexuality and desire acknowledges the intrinsic link between sexuality and an individual's sense of identity, and its importance for female identity, given the historical repression of women's bodies and the double standard of morality still pervasive in many Western cultures. In the discussion of the strategies Brazilian female poets and fiction writers employ, Ferreira-Pinto addresses some social and cultural issues that relate to a woman's sense of her own body and sexuality: the characterization of women based on racial features and class hierarchy; marriage; motherhood; the silencing of the lesbian subject; and aging. Ferreira-Pinto's analysis is informed by the works of various and diverse critics and theoreticians, among them Helene Cixous, Teresa De Lauretis, Adrienne Rich, Gloria Anzaldua, Georges Bataille, and Wilhelm Reich.
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Huston, Nancy. (1990). Journal de la création. Seuil. https://uqam-bib.on.worldcat.org/oclc/25092282
Pendant des millénaires, tout paraissait simple : aux hommes la création, aux femmes la procréation ; aux hommes l'esprit et aux femmes le corps. L'émancipation féminine a bousculé cette distribution des rôles et mis à mal des métaphores séculaires : la muse féminine, l'œuvre d'art comme amante ou comme " enfant " de l'artiste. Mais trouver un nouveau modus vivendi n'est pas facile pour autant. Mettant à profit une certaine et curieuse forme de clairvoyance liée, dans son esprit, aux métamorphoses de son corps de femme enceinte, Nancy Huston s'est penchée sur les histoires souvent douloureuses de Sand et Musset, Virginia et Leonard Woolf, Scott et Zelda Fitzgerald, Sartre et Beauvoir. Le récit de ses recherches sur les couples d'écrivains et le journal de sa propre grossesse se croisent, se répondent et se complètent pour évoquer les mystères de l'amour, de l'inspiration, du couple et de la création.