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Women in Dark Times

Jacqueline Rose

SOCIETY & SOCIAL SCIENCES
21
Coup de coeur
Coup de coeur (Gender Studies), by Lochy
What connects the socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, the avant-garde painter Charlotte Saloman, and Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe? At first glance, the link may seem tenuous. Yet Rose seamlessly explores how their personal suffering is intertwined with a public sphere that sought to extinguish their brilliance each a brilliant threat to patriarchal institutions. This isnt idle psychoanalysis of female suffering; it is a necessary reckoning with the darkest secrets of the soul. It is a clarion call for a feminism that doesnt shy away from the brutal reality of honour-killings. Rose offers us a chaotic foray into a dark, uncertain, but revolutionary feminism.

Women in Dark Times begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon; and film icon Marilyn Monroe. The story of these women, bound together by their struggles against iniquity, blazes a trail across some of the defining features of the twentieth century – revolution, totalitarianism and the American dream – and compels us to reckon with the unspeakable. Bringing to the surface the subterranean depths of history and the human mind that dominant political vocabularies cannot bear to face, pioneering critic and public intellectual Jacqueline Rose forges a new language for feminism. Extending her argument into the present, Rose turns her focus to ‘honour’ killings and celebrates contemporary artists whose work grows out of an unflinching engagement with all that is darkest in the modern world. Women in Dark Times, reissued a decade after its original publication, offers a template for a scandalous feminism, one which confronts all that is most recalcitrant and unsettling in the struggle to create a better world.

Publisher: FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Feb 2025
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 25 mm
ISBN: 9781804271711