This author explores the intersections of history, literature, and visual culture. Her work examines how subjectivity and identity are shaped through media representations and social structures. De Lauretis focuses on theoretical concepts and literary analysis in her writing, offering readers incisive insights into the construction of perception. Her essays and books, written in both English and Italian, are considered foundational texts in film studies and feminist theory.
Teresa De Lauretis makes a bold and orginal argument for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives, through close readings of texts ranging from cinema and literature to psychoanalysis and cultural theory.
Teresa De Lauretis makes a bold and orginal argument for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives, through close readings of texts ranging from cinema and literature to psychoanalysis and cultural theory.
"Technologies of Gender builds a bridge between the fashionable orthodoxies of academic theory (Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, et al.) and the frequently-marginalized contributions of feminist theory.... In sum, de Lauretis has written a book that should be required reading for every feminist in need of theoretical ammunition—and for every theorist in need of feminist enlightenment." —B. Ruby Rich "... sets philosophical ideas humming.... she has much to say." —Cineaste "I can think of no other work that pushes the debate on the female subject forward with such passion and intellectual rigor." —SubStance This book addresses the question of gender in poststructuralist theoretical discourse, postmodern fiction, and women's cinema. It examines the construction of gender both as representation and as self-representation in relation to several kinds of texts and argues that feminism is producing a radical rewriting, as well as a rereading, of the dominant forms of Western culture.
"There is hardly a page in this collection of hard-thought and brilliantly written essays that does not yield some new insight." --Hayden White..". de Lauretis's writing is brisk and refreshingly lucid." --International Film Guide