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The Well of Loneliness is probably the most famous lesbian novel ever written, and certainly the most widely read. It contains no explicit sex scenes, yet in 1928, the year in which the novel was published, it was deemed obscene in a British court of law for its defense of sexual inversion and was forbidden for sale or import into England. Its author, Radclyffe Hall, was already well-known as a writer and West End celebrity, but the fame and notoriety of that one book has all but eclipsed a literary output of some half-dozen other novels and several volumes of poetry. In Radclyffe Hall: A Life in the Writing Richard Dellamora offers the first full look at the entire range of Hall's published and unpublished works of fiction, poetry, and autobiography and reads through them to demonstrate how she continually played with the details of her own life to help fashion her own identity as well as to bring into existence a public lesbian culture. Along the way, Dellamora revises many of the truisms about Hall that had their origins in the memoirs of her long-term partner, Una Troubridge, and that have found an afterlife in the writings of Hall's biographers. In detailing Hall's explorations of the self, Dellamora is the first seriously to consider their contexts in Freudian psychoanalysis as understood in England in the 1920s. As important, he uncovers Hall's involvement with other modes of speculative psychology, including Spiritualism, Theosophy, and an eclectic brand of Christian and Buddhist mysticism. Dellamora's Hall is a woman of complex accommodations, able to reconcile her marriage to Troubridge with her passionate affairs with other women, and her experimental approach to gender and sexuality with her conservative politics and Catholicism. She is, above all, a thinker continually inventive about the connections between selfhood and desire, a figure who has much to contribute to our own efforts to understand transgendered and transsexual existence today.
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Cette anthologie, la première du genre en langue française, retrace l'histoire complexe de quarante années de théories féministes anglo-américaines en histoire de l'art, à partir d'exemples détaillés et emblématiques. Les premiers écrits abordent l'histoire des pionnières de cette théorisation féministe, avec des écrits de Lucy Lippard, une analyse rétrospective des caractéristiques du mouvement californien des années 1970 ou des réceptions polémiques de The Dinner Party. Une seconde partie est consacrée à des textes qui s'attachent à une relecture de l'histoire de l'art des siècles passés, que ce soit le point de vue de Griselda Pollock, des « vieilles maîtresses » à une théorisation des espaces de la féminité, ou des approches plus marxistes du travail des artistes. Le troisième volet regroupe de nouvelles perspectives : l'analyse des masculinités à l'époque moderne et dans les performances des années 1960-1970, puis une approche des problématiques spécifiques aux artistes de couleurs, notamment afro-américaines. Enfin, deux études permettent de faire le point sur le développement postféministe en art et les questions queer. Cette sélection, issue d'un vaste répertoire, permet d'aborder les différentes conceptions théoriques des études féministes, de genre et queer en art qui se sont succédées et répondues des années 1970 aux années 2000.