Antisemitism, Misogyny and the Logic of Cultural Difference Cesare Lombroso and Matilde Serao：（反犹主义、厌女症和文化差异的逻辑Cesare Lombroso和马蒂尔德Serao）.pdfVIP

In the early days, Marxist historians argued that the unconscious was universal, ahistorical and unchanging, and thus not relevant to historical enquiry. Feminists argued that sexual difference is rooted in the uncon- scious, and that the arrangements of sexual/social ordering are prompted by unconscious drives and desires. Appropriately, then , the I here, having travelled that journey, is a confessedly uncertain one by the second half of the volume: unsure, as many of us are, where the emphasis on subjectivities will take a feminism no longer attached to political activism, and busily proliferating into hybrid forms in the wider world as well as in the academy. Norma Clarke Antisemitism, Misogyny and the Logic of Cultural Difference: Cesare Lombroso and Matilde Serao Nancy A. Harrovvitz University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln and London, 1994 ISBN 8032 2374 9, £13.99 This book is less about the logic of cultural difference replayed through misogyny and antisemitism than a dose historical account of its exhibi- tion through the work of two key writers. The setting is late nineteenth- century Italy, and the analysis primarily concerns Cesare Lombroso, founding father of modern criminology, and Matilde Serao, prolific novelist, journalist and (apparent, though Harrowitz suggests not uni - formly) vociferous anti-feminist. The analytical starting point is that anti- semitism and misogyny are bound together in these nineteenth-century discourses through the effort to contain and control difference, and Lombroso and Serao both not only theorize these differences but also exemplify prevalent s