Camera Obscura (2001) - Jealous Schoolgirls, Single White Females and Other Bad Examples: Rethinking Gender and Envy
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- article: Jealous Schoolgirls, Single White Females and Other Bad Examples: Rethinking Gender and Envy
- author(s): Sianne Ngai
- journal: Camera Obscura (01/Jan/2001)
- issue: volume 16, issue 2 47, pages 177-229
- DOI: 10.1215/02705346-16-2_47-177
- journal ISSN: 0270-5346
- publisher: Duke University Press
- keywords: Alexander Doty, Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Poison, Alfred Hitchcock, Anne Baxter, Aviva Briefel, Barbet, Bette Davis, Corey K. Creekmur, Dramatic arts, Emotions, Envy, Female-female relations, Feminism, Film, Gender, Karen Hollinger, London, England, New York City, New York, Rebecca (1940), Reproductive system, Rhona J. Berenstein, Ronald Neame, Schroeder, Single White Female, Slavoj Žižek, Thelma Ritter, Vertigo (1958), Violence
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Abstract
Though previously at the center of much feminist debate, today the notion of penis envy seems more deserving of obsolescence than sustained analysis and critique. Rey Chow's comment on Gayatri Spivak's invocation of the affect provides a useful example of this traditional approach.