Jacqueline Rose Books

A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.

Offers an interpretation of Sylvia Plath's writing, claiming that previous interpretations - both feminist and psychoanalytic - have been too polarized.

In these powerful essays Jacqueline Rose delves into the questions that keep us awake at night, into issues of privacy and publishing, exposure and shame. Offering new links between feminism, psychoanalysis, literature and politics, On Not Being Able to Sleep provides a resonant and thought provoking collection for the present day.

Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl's 'Matilda' to observations about motherhood in the ancient world, from and thoughts about the stigmatization of single mothers in the UK, Mothers delivers a groundbreaking report into something so prevalent we hardly notice.

A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic.

A collection of essays imagining a world in which a radical respect for death might exist alongside a fairer distribution of the earth's wealth, by one of our leading thinkers.

Peter Pan, Jacqueline Rose contends, forces us to question what it is we are doing in the endless production and dissemination of children's fiction. In a preface, written for this edition, Rose considers some of Peter Pan's new guises and their implications. From Spielberg's Hook, to the lesbian production of the play at the London Drill Hall in 1991, to debates in the English House of Lords, to a newly claimed status as the icon of transvestite culture, Peter Pan continues to demonstrate its bizarre renewability as a cultural fetish of our times.

The book delves into the impact of Reformation-era tensions on the dynamics between the monarchy, Parliament, and legal systems during the Restoration period. It examines how these historical conflicts shaped governance and authority, offering a unique perspective on the interplay of religion and politics in shaping modern British institutions.

Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe. Together these women have a shared story to tell, as they blaze a trail across some of the most dramatic events of the last century - revolution, totalitarianism, the American dream. Enraged by injustice, they are each in touch with what is most painful about being human, bound together by their willingness to bring the unspeakable to light. Taking the argument into the present are today's women, courageous individuals involved in some of the cruellest realities of our times. Grappling with the reality of honour killing - notably through the stories of Shafilea Ahmed, Fadime Sahindal and Heshu Yones - Rose argues that the work of feminism is far from done. In the final three chapters, she celebrates the work of three brilliant contemporary artists - Esther Shalev-Gerz, Yael Bartana and Therese Oulton - whose work grows out of an unflinching engagement with all that is darkest in the modern world. Women in Dark Times shows us how these visionary women offer a new template for feminism. Taking their stand against the iniquities of our times, they tread a path between public and private pain, confronting us with what we need most urgently, but also often, cannot bear to see.

Einleitung, Die Psyche des Feminismus, Teil I: 1. Dora, Bruchstück einer Analyse, 2. Weibliche Sexualität, Jacques Lacan und die école freudienne, 3:. Das Unbehagen in der Weiblichkeit, 4. George Eliot und das Spektakel der Frau, 5. Hamlet, die 'Mona Lisa' der Literatur, 6. Julia Kristeva, die Zweite, Teil II: 7. Das Imaginäre, 8. Der cinematische Apparat, 9. Die Frau als Symptom, 10. Sexualität im Feld der Anschauung, Anmerkungen, Namensregister.