Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference

Examines the work of early feminist psychoanalytic writing to decipher it in the role of race. Focusing on the 1920s and 1930s, this title rereads the writing's of British analysts Joan Riviere and Melanie Klein, modernist poet HD, the eccentric French analyst Marie Bonaparte, and anthropologist Margaret Mead.