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Feminist Review (1983) 14, 5–21. doi:10.1057/fr.1983.20
Femininity and Its Discontents
Jacqueline Rose has been involved in the women's movement since 1974. She was the co-editor with Juliet Mitchell and the translator of Feminine Sexuality, Jacques Lacan and the Ecole Freudienne (Macmillan 1982) and has written for the journal m/f. Her work on children's fiction, which uses psychoanalysis and semiotics, will be published as The Case of Peter Pan or The Impossibility of Children's Fiction in November. She teaches at Sussex University.
A draft of this article was presented in discussion with Elizabeth Wilson at the first of a series of seminars - 'Psychoanalysis and Feminism, Re-Opening the Case' - organized in London in 1982-83. It has been rewritten for Feminist Review. Thanks are due to Ann Whitehead, Cora Kaplan and Juliet Mitchell for their comments. Many of the ideas finally came together during discussion with my students on the 'Studies in Feminism' course at Sussex University 1982-83. I would like to dedicate the article to them.
Jacqueline Rose
