How can a girl become a woman today an ethical woman and a member of society without being either a victim or a manipulator? Reflecting on this questionJuliet ... » 

How can a girl become a woman today an ethical woman and a member of society without being either a victim or a manipulator? Reflecting on this questionJuliet Flower MacCannell takes us for the first time beyond the flawed modelsfor becoming woman left to us y Freud and Sade.Having previously explored the logic of feminine sexuality MacCannell sets outin the Hysterics Guide to locate an ethics of the feminine. She does this byexamining instances of the often hysterical feminine confrontation withusually perverse masculine subjects confrontations that represent crucialscenes in the constitution of female sexuality. Her study takes us into Sadeanethics and the prescriptions of Freudian psychoanalysis postEnlightenmentcolonialism racism during and after World War I genocidal fascism in WorldWar II and the slowing of time and generation during the Cold War.MacCannell treats contemporary art fiction and theory considering works byArendt Angelou Rousseau Kant Stendhal Kleist Hitchcock Atwood KleinChodorow Adorno and Duras. Ultimately this book reasserts becoming womanas an issue that has until now been denied for want of a feminine ethicrelevant to contemporary life. «