Conrad and Masculinity
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thoughts might be. In contrast, we are regularly given Almayer’s thoughts<br />
<strong>and</strong> feelings in some detail.<br />
53 Teresa de Lauretis, Alice Doesn’t: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema (London:<br />
Macmillan, 1984), p. 68.<br />
54 The Cambridge edition of the novel amends the second ‘dress’ here to<br />
‘kriss’ (a dagger), so that it reads ‘I have seen his kriss. It shines! What<br />
jewels!’ Almayer’s Folly: The Story of an Eastern River, eds Floyd Eugene<br />
Eddleman <strong>and</strong> David Leon Higdon, with an Introduction by Ian Watt<br />
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 40. This both improves<br />
the sense <strong>and</strong> emphasizes the phallic presentation of Dain.<br />
55 Suzanne Raitt, Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse (Hemel Hempstead:<br />
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990), p. 65.<br />
56 Annette Kuhn, Women’s Pictures: Feminism <strong>and</strong> Cinema (1982; London:<br />
Verso, 1993), p. 53.<br />
57 Constance Penley, ‘Feminism, Film Theory <strong>and</strong> the Bachelor Machines’,<br />
m/f, 10 (1985), 39–59 (p. 54), quoted SD,123.<br />
58 Mary Ann Doane, ‘Film <strong>and</strong> the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female<br />
Spectator’, in The Sexual Subject: A Screen Reader in Sexuality, ed. Screen<br />
Collective (London: Routledge, 1992), pp. 227–43 (p. 231).<br />
59 An Outcast of the Isl<strong>and</strong>s, eds J. H. Stape <strong>and</strong> Hans van Marle, introduction<br />
by J. H. Stape (Oxford <strong>and</strong> New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp.<br />
xvii–xviii.<br />
60 Stape, p. xvi.<br />
61 Letter of 24 September 1895 to Edward Garnett, CL, I, 247, quoted Stape,<br />
p. xvii.<br />
62 Hélène Cixous, ‘Sorties’, p. 71.<br />
63 Stape, p. xiii.<br />
64 Stape, p. xv.<br />
65 Stape, p. xv.<br />
66 See Morag Shiach, ‘Their “Symbolic” Exists, It Holds Power – We, the<br />
Sowers of Disorder, Know it Only Too Well’, in Between Feminism <strong>and</strong><br />
Psychoanalysis, ed. Teresa Brennan (London <strong>and</strong> New York: Routledge,<br />
1989), pp. 153–67 (p. 156).<br />
67 Stape, p. xv.<br />
68 Stape, p. xix.<br />
69 Nadelhaft, pp. 33, 32.<br />
70 Nadelhaft, p. 34.<br />
71 Heath, ‘Male Feminism’, p. 16.<br />
72 Claire Pajaczkowska, ‘The Heterosexual Presumption: A Contribution to<br />
the Debate on Pornography’, Screen, 22.1 (1981), 79–94 (p. 92), quoted in<br />
Heath, ‘Male Feminism’, p. 2.<br />
Chapter 2 Imperialism <strong>and</strong> Male Bonds<br />
Notes 217<br />
1 The popular phrase ‘male bonding’ derives from Lionel Tiger’s Men in<br />
Groups (New York: R<strong>and</strong>om House, 1969), described by R. W. Connell as ‘a<br />
complete biological-reductionist theory of masculinity based on the idea<br />
that we are descended from a hunting species’: R. W. Connell, Masculinities<br />
(Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995), p. 46. However, the repeated use of the