Notions of the Feminine: Literary Essays from Dostoyevsky to Lacan

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 “Pale Whore, Pale Writer”: Is There Punishment for the Crime?

Chapter 3 “Blushes & Flushes”: Anna Karenina ’s Shameful Physiology

Chapter 4 Women in Love : D.H. Lawrence’s Paean to Misogyny

Chapter 5 The Virgin and the Gipsy : D.H. Lawrence’s Paean to Misogyny

Chapter 6 Ugly Hairy Mounds, Fierce Hairy Armpits, and Sewer-Like Menstruations: Women as Vulgar Commodity in Fuentes’s The Old Gringo

Chapter 7 Mediazation and Marginalization of the Feminine in Böll’s Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Chapter 8 Gazing from the Inside: Lacan and an Endocrinological Notion of the Male “Gaze”