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Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature as well as contemporary film and TVseries, the contributions featured in Gender Disgussed: Gender and the Abject employ Kristeva's concept of abjection and the abject in order to analyze the gender politics and rhetorics of the texts with which they engage.

In a reading of selected essays and plays by Jean-Paul Sartre, Hedwig Fraunhofer's "Gender and the Abject in Sartre" illustrates the extent to which Sartre's othering of fascism and his patriarchal - misogynist and homophobic - rhetoric partake in the same dualistic ontology as fascism itself. By studying these texts against the backdrop of Theweleit's theorization of fascism and ...

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