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