Figures of resistance: essays in feminist theory

Abstract

Introduction: Thinking feminist / by Patricia White -- Rethinking women's cinema (1985) -- Sexual indifference and lesbian representation (1988) -- When lesbians were not women (2002) -- The lure of the mannish lesbian (1991) -- Letter to an unknown woman (1999) -- Public and private fantasies in David Cronenberg's M. Butterfly (1999) -- Eccentric subjects (1990) -- Upping the anti: SUB? (1990) -- Habit changes (1994) -- Subjectivity, feminist politics, and the intractability of desire (2002) -- Figures of resistance (2005)