Background
Merja Makinen was born on January 2, 1953, in the City of London, United Kingdom.
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1989
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In recent years, the Freudian construction of a passive female sexuality has been severely criticised by feminists. This is the first book to tackle the question of female fetishism and to document women's engagement with this form of sexuality. Most psychoanalytic theory excludes the very possibility of the existence of female fetishism. In the face of the wealth of material about fetishistic practices gathered in this book, the authors suggest that Freudian phallocentrism has prevented analysts from seeing the evidence before their eyes.
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1994
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This book is an examination of feminist writers' appropriation of a range of popular genres: detective fiction, science fiction, romance, and the fairy tale. The author argues that feminists can successfully appropriate all four genres because genres, as cultural productions, have accommodated the cultural changes brought about by second-wave feminism. The book provides a history of each of the genres, reinstating women's contributions in those histories, and a comprehensive review of the feminist critical debates on each of the genres. This book is an examination of feminist writers' appropriation of a range of popular genres: detective fiction, science fiction, romance, and the fairy tale. The author argues that feminists can successfully appropriate all four genres because genres, as cultural productions, have accommodated the cultural changes brought about by second-wave feminism. The book provides a history of each of the genres, reinstating women's contributions in those histories, and a comprehensive review of the feminist critical debates on each of the genres.
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2001
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This Reader's Guide brings together, in an easily accessible form, the range of review and critical material on the novels of Jeanette Winterson. The book traces the early reception of each novel on its publication and examines it alongside larger critical debates. Merja Makinen develops the controversial discussion of Winterson as a lesbian novelist and the more consensual analysis of her as a postmodern writer. This Reader's Guide brings together, in an easily accessible form, the range of review and critical material on the novels of Jeanette Winterson. The book traces the early reception of each novel on its publication and examines it alongside larger critical debates. Merja Makinen develops the controversial discussion of Winterson as a lesbian novelist and the more consensual analysis of her as a postmodern writer.
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2005
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Far from being a conservative writer endorsing women's domestic role, Agatha Christie's book depicts women as adventurous, independent women who renegotiate sexual relationships along more equal lines. Women are also allowed the dangerous competency to disrupt society and yet the texts refuse to see them as double deviant because of their femininity. This detailed textual analysis of her oeuvre demonstrates exactly how quietly innovatory Christie was in relation to gender, beginning in nineteen twenty and concluding in the early seventies. Far from being a conservative writer endorsing women's domestic role, Agatha Christie's book depicts women as adventurous, independent women who renegotiate sexual relationships along more equal lines. Women are also allowed the dangerous competency to disrupt society and yet the texts refuse to see them as double deviant because of their femininity. This detailed textual analysis of her oeuvre demonstrates exactly how quietly innovatory Christie was in relation to gender, beginning in nineteen twenty and concluding in the early seventies.
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Merja Makinen was born on January 2, 1953, in the City of London, United Kingdom.
Makinen graduated from Middlesex University with a Bachelor of Arts degree (with first class honors) in 1977. She also earned her Master of Arts degree at Victoria University of Manchester in 1979, and her doctorate at Queen Mary College in London in 1984.
Makinen started her career as a principal lecturer in English literature at Middlesex University in 1985. Later she became a director of communication and culture there. In 2016, she retired, and now she works as a speaker and freelance writer.
She is also a contributor to books, including The Feminist Companion to Literature in English, edited by V. Blain, P. Clements, and I. Grundy, Yale University Press (New Haven, Connecticut), 1990; Image and Power: Women in Fiction in the Twentieth Century, edited by Gail Cunningham and Sarah Sceats, Longman, 1996; and The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter, edited by T. Broughton and J. Bristow, Longman, 1997.
Makinen is a contributor to such periodicals as Feminist Review, Chesterton Review, and Dickensian.
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1994Makinen has one son, Nicholas.
