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ОглавлениеContents
Introduction: Lessing and the Family
Lessing and the Family: From the Personal to the Political
The Family in Lessing’s Fiction
Critical and Theoretical Approach
Postcolonial Ecofeminism and the Family
Intersectionality in Lessing’s Fiction
Overview of Key Thinkers and Theories: ‘The Family’ and Families
The Functionalists: The Stable Family
The Family in Marxism/Communist Theory
Feminism and the Patriarchal Family
Gay Men, Lesbians and the Family
Queer Kinship and Families of Choice
The New Right and After: The ‘Pretended’ or Alternative Families
Overview of Existing Criticism: Lessing and the Family
Chapter One Communism and the Family
The Revolutionary Possibilities of the Commune/Communism
‘Latent Slavery’: ‘Natural’ Division of Labour in the Family
Dependant Men: The End of Male Supremacy
The Limitations of Communism and Marxist Theory: Gender Blindness
Domesticity and Women: Invisible Labour and the Alienated Proletariat
‘Pretended’ or Alternative Family: New Right and New Labour
Lesbians and Homosexuals: Invisible Groups in the Revolution
Women in the Revolution
Delusions and Sweet Dreams
Conclusion
Chapter Two Feminism and the Family
Lessing and Feminism
The New Right and Feminism
Women and the Family
Work as a Hobby Rather than a Career
Romantic Notions of Love and Marriage
Sexual Relationship
Reproduction
The Myth of the Perfect and Happy Mother
Illusions of the Happy and Stable Family
Public Patriarchy
Kate and Maureen: Feminist Sisterhood of the 1970s
Maternal Ambivalence: A Feminist Struggle
Other Forms of Oppression
Conclusion
Chapter Three Sufism and the Family
Lessing and Idries Shah
Lessing and Jenny Diski
The Sufi Family
Sufi Parenthood
Habit (Un)Learning
Schooling
Lessing’s Sufism and Feminism: Su-feminism
The Sufi Liberation: The Walls
Conclusion
Chapter Four Postcolonial Ecofeminism and the Family
Lessing, Postcolonialism and the Environment
Gendered and Exploited Spaces: Family and the Environment
The True Self and the Social Self
The Environment: From ‘Singing’ to ‘Dying’
Feminist Exploration (Eco-centric) vs Masculinist Exploitation (Ego-centric)
Environment and Women
Non-Normative Families in Mara and Dann
Incest as a Trope
The Farms
The Family: From Dystopia to Utopia
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
