Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine

This classic work of feminist theory, now available with a new foreword, provides ways of thinking about details in literature, art, and architecture, and uncovering the unspoken but powerful ideologies that attached gender to details.

Naomi Schor (1943-2001) was the Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French at Yale University. A noted scholar of French literature and critical theory, her other books include Zola’s Crowds, Breaking the Chain: Women, Theory, and French Realist Fiction, George Sand and Idealism and Bad Objects: Essays Popular and Unpopular.