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How to solve a crime : real cases from the cutting edge of forensics
Professor Angela Gallop has been at the forefront of forensics for over 45 years. During her remarkable career, she has worked on hundreds of cases from the seemingly unsolvable to outright bizarre and is often essential in finding the crucial piece of evidence to help solve them. In 'How to Solve a Crime', Gallop takes readers behind the police tape and into the heart of the crime scene. From being bemused by mediums to helping identify the man who stabbed George Harrison, the crimes in this book offer a real insight into the mind of a forensic scientists.
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Around 1981
Jane Gallop’s book offers a clear-eyed and comprehensive history of feminist literary criticism. Why, she asks, have we so quickly buried 1970s feminist criticism? What lies buried there? Why do 1990s academic feminists accuse other academic feminists of being ‘academic’?
Gallop takes the novel approach of structuring her inquiry around anthologies of feminist criticism: twelve important texts that have had a wide impact on more than a decade of scholarship. In reading an anthology as a whole, she typically identifies a central, hegemonic voice (usually that of the editor/s) which would organise all the voices into a unity, and then explores the resistance within that volume to such a unity. Weight is placed behind these internal differences as a wedge against the centrist drive.
Around 1981 addresses briefly ‘french feminism’ and psychoanalytic feminism before focusing on its principal subject: the mainstream of feminist literary criticism, before and after its general acceptance as part of the changing institution of literary studies. This brilliantly illuminates the dilemma of the feminist critic, divided by her allegiance to both feminism and literary studies.
Introduction Part 1: Around 1981 1. The Difference Within ( Writing and Sexual Difference ) 2. The Problem of Definition ( The New Feminist Criticism ) Part 2: Sidetracks 3. \"French feminism\" ( L’Arc 61 ) 4. The Monster in the Mirror ( Yale French Studies 62 ) 5. Reading the Mother Tongue ( The (M)other Tongue ) 6. The Coloration of Academic Feminism ( The Poetics of Gender ) Part 3: Going Back 7. Writing About Ourselves ( Images of Women in Fiction ) 8. An Idea Presented Before Its Time ( Feminist Literary Criticism ) 9. A Contradiction in Terms ( Feminist Criticism ) Part 4: Going On (In) 10. Tongue Work ( Conjuring ) 11. The Attraction of Matrimonial Metaphor ( Making a Difference ) 12. History is Like Mother ( Feminist Issues in Literary Scholarship ) Afterword
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Eli Clare: Outsider Theory, the Environment, and Brilliant Imperfection
Gallop discusses the connection between disability and environmental destruction, particularly as explored in Eli Clare's book \"Brilliant Imperfection.\" Crip theory, emerging from disability and queer theory, has often overlooked the environment. However, Eli Clare's work highlights the strong connection between disability and environmental destruction. She examines how environmental degradation, such as air pollution from coal-burning power plants, can directly lead to disabilities like birth defects and developmental disorders. Clare's work challenges the common narrative of disability as solely an individual issue, emphasizing the systemic factors that contribute to disability. By centering disability in environmental discussions, crip theory offers a unique and valuable perspective on environmental issues.
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The Ethics of Close Reading
Gallop discusses the ethics of close reading, arguing that it is a valuable practice that can promote empathy, critical thinking, and a deeper understanding of texts. She traces the history of close reading from New Criticism to contemporary literary theory, highlighting its emphasis on attentiveness, humility, and responsibility. She also acknowledges the potential limitations of close reading, such as its tendency to focus on the text itself at the expense of broader cultural and historical contexts. She suggests that a more nuanced approach to close reading can incorporate both close attention to detail and critical awareness of the text's ideological and social implications. She argues that close reading can be a powerful tool for ethical engagement with texts, promoting empathy, critical thinking, and a deeper understanding of the human condition.
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Theory, Place: Exile and Roots
Whereas I taught Clare's book for the first time in 2020, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens is a book that I've been teaching since the 1980s, first at Rice University here in Texas and then after 1990 in Milwaukee. [...]that seemed merely a coincidental personal connection; the theoretical import of her book clearly lay elsewhere, in her understanding of the relation between culture, sex and race, in her revaluation of black women's contribution to culture. [...]the Borderlands are physically present wherever two or more cultures edge each other, where people of different races occupy the same territory, where under, lower, middle and upper classes touch.\" The book spends a good deal of time describing in detail aspects of life in South Texas, in Hidalgo County, in the land between the Rio Nueces and the Rio Grande.
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Polemic
These new essays by leading scholars examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemical encounters. The essays are enhanced by an interview with Gayatri Spivak, specially conducted by Jane Gallop for this volume Historically rigorous, theoretically astute, and sometimes wickedly funny, Polemic makes criticism a critical issue.
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Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment is an issue in which feminists are usually thought to be on the plaintiff’s side. But in 1993—amid considerable attention from the national academic community—Jane Gallop, a prominent feminist professor of literature, was accused of sexual harassment by two of her women graduate students. In Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment, Gallop tells the story of how and why she was charged with sexual harassment and what resulted from the accusations. Weaving together memoir and theoretical reflections, Gallop uses her dramatic personal experience to offer a vivid analysis of current trends in sexual harassment policy and to pose difficult questions regarding teaching and sex, feminism and knowledge.Comparing “still new” feminism—as she first encountered it in the early 1970s—with the more established academic discipline that women’s studies has become, Gallop makes a case for the intertwining of learning and pleasure. Refusing to acquiesce to an imperative of silence that surrounds such issues, Gallop acknowledges—and describes—her experiences with the eroticism of learning and teaching. She argues that antiharassment activism has turned away from the feminism that created it and suggests that accusations of harassment are taking aim at the inherent sexuality of professional and pedagogic activity rather than indicting discrimination based on gender—that antiharassment has been transformed into a sensationalist campaign against sexuality itself.Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment offers a direct and challenging perspective on the complex and charged issues surrounding the intersection of politics, sexuality, feminism, and power. Gallop’s story and her characteristically bold way of telling it will be compelling reading for anyone interested in these issues and particularly to anyone interested in the ways they pertain to the university.
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Has Postcritique Run Out of Steam?
\"Has Postcritique Run Out of Steam?\" Let me begin by noting the temporal assumptions and somewhat uncanny doublings of this question. When something \"runs out of steam,\" we are at the end of it; thus if we answer our title question in the affirmative, we are about to be Post Postcritique. The assumptions behind declaring that postcritique has run out of steam are not unlike those behind declaring we are post-critique. The assumptions here are that ideas and stances have their moment and then are followed and replaced by the next moment, which is an antithesis. We might even call this an oedipal theory of ideas, as the new dethrones what had been reigning, usually by declaring it \"out of steam\" or otherwise lacking in phallic juice. The temporality of our panel title assumes that critique and its antithesis belong to different moments of literary criticism, different moments of the literary academy. With the few minutes I have here, I would like to suggest another temporality, an alternative distribution of critique and its opposite.
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Response: The Institutional History of Theory and the Institutional History of Feminism
In sketching his brief book history of theory, Jeff remarked that the second period not only saw the proliferation of theory textbooks, but also \"the forging and expansion of presses featuring theory, such as Routledge, Minnesota, Duke, and others, and book series such as Routledge's Thinking Gender… or Minnesota's History and Theory of Literature.\" While \"diluted, repeated over and over, misapplied\" appear here in parenthesis, this negative characterization of book in contrast with article reappeared five minutes later in his talk: \"An article, exploding like a depth charge in a leading journal, could set off a frenzy among book publishers, eager to persuade the author that those thirty pages could be expanded into a book. Since I am old enough to remember when theory did not include feminism, I particularly enjoy this reversal, this move from including feminism in theory to including theory in feminism. Among her many books on theory are The Daughter's Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis (1982), Reading Lacan (1985), Thinking Through the Body (1988), Anecdotal Theory (2002), and The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time (2011).
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