Judith Roof explores the evolving representation of 'the father' in contemporary culture, highlighting a crisis as traditional patriarchal metaphors lose their significance. Drawing on her background in law and humanities, she argues that the role of the father is now uncertain and open to reinterpretation, reflecting broader societal changes in gender dynamics and authority.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Making over : metamorphosis, taxonomy, vantage -- Prosopopeias: exceeding kind -- Temporality still -- Social algebras -- Scopic folding, layered economies -- The fixer -- Gender is as gender does : on the rebound -- Spurious displays -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Filmography -- Index
Looks at female comic secondary characters who, though never on center stage, play an indispensable role in enriching and complicating the course of the narrative. This title explores what is queer about the middle - in the sense of eccentric and in terms of desire - and how that queerness functions as a part of and an antidote to narrative.