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The Fractured Family brings together an unusual and provocative combination of feminist literary criticism and social psychology, as well as traditional and non-traditional psychoanalytic thought. It tells the story of Simone de Beauvoir's 1953 feminist manifesto, The Second Sex, which has functioned as a kind of unwilling mother to later feminist works. Suggesting that the feminist family has developed in a dysfunctional patriarchal environment, this book explores ways in which real mother-daughter relationship parallel those of feminist critical texts. In doing so, The Fractured Family proposes that Beauvoir's The Second Sex is perhaps the most significant feminist work of the contemporary era.

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The Author: Elizabeth L. MacNabb is currently a Professor in English and Humanities at the University of Louisville (Kentucky), where she teaches a broad range of literature courses. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and was selected for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Writing at Illinois State University. She has published a variety of works, ranging from poetry and feminist critical essays to a short bibliography of texts on and about philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

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