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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.

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

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.

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.

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

Jacqueline Rose has written what can only be called a masterpiece of scholarship and thought. The Last Resistance , exploring the role of literature in the Zionist imagination and Jewish memory, is a work of stunning insight and moral courage. Destined to become a standard in the field, it will have a profound and lasting impact.-Sara Roy, Harvard University In The Last Resistance , Jacqueline Rose uses her knowledge of literature, psychoanalysis, and politics to brilliantly illuminating effect. The volume will greatly enhance Professor Rose's reputation as a literary critic and public intellectual. Stimulating and thought-provoking, it deserves to be read widely.-Avi Shlaim, University of Oxford The miracle of Jacqueline Rose is that she combines textual criticism with concrete political struggles in a brilliant way. In this book, a breathtakingly refined textual analysis sustains a passionate, ethical and political engagement in the ongoing Near East crisis. This alone makes her a model of what a public intellectual should be.-Slavoj Zizek

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 explores a communal neurosis affecting Israeli society, offering a thought-provoking analysis that addresses significant contemporary issues. Her examination delves into the psychological and cultural dynamics at play, making it a relevant and critical read for understanding the complexities of Israeli identity and experience.

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.

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.