Beyond the Public Sphere
Film and the Feminist Imaginary

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The New Topography of Space -- 1. The Feminist Imaginary through the Cinematic Imagination -- 2. Three Models of Imagination: As Faculty, as Context, and as Imaginal -- 3. A Genealogy of the Concept of Rape: A Critical Reconstruction of the Patriarchal Social Imaginary -- 4. Anachronisms and Representations as Tools for a Critical Feminist Social Imaginary -- 5. The Lost Promise of Feminist Agency in Modern Political Theories: The Dialectic of Visibility into Invisibility -- Conclusion: The New Road of Visibilities: Overcoming Secrets, Invisibility, and Exclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.