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Figures of Resistance brings together crucial essays and unpublished lectures of internationally renowned theorist Teresa de Lauretis, spanning twenty years of her finest work. De Lauretis's rigorous thought and elegant writing interrogate how cinema, literature, and psychoanalytic theory construct and deconstruct gender, sexuality, and ways of knowing. This collection invites us to reflect on the history of feminist theory and its power to envision anew issues of representation, reading, and epistemology. Essays include Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation, The Lure of the Mannish Lesbian, Eccentric Subjects, Habit Changes, The Intractability of Desire, and the unpublished title essay Figures of Resistance. _x000B__x000B_An introduction by feminist film scholar Patricia White provides an overview of the development and essential contribution of de Lauretis's thought. _x000B__x000B_

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