Claire Kahane

Claire Kahane (born 1935 in New York City)^[1] is an American writer, scholar and feminist literary critic. She is Professor Emerita of English at the University at Buffalo, where she taught from 1974 to 2000.^[2] Kahane is the author of Passions of the Voice, a study of narrative and "the strategies of hysteric discourse."^[3] Scholar Christine Wiesenthal, writing in the journal Victorian Review, wrote that "the confluence of feminist, narrative, and psychoanalytic theory" in Passions of the Voice was "an innovative and provocative mix."^[4] Kahane is also the co-editor, with Charles Bernheimer, of In Dora's Case, a collection of essays from a feminist perspective criticizing Sigmund Freud's efforts to "put words into Dora's mouth."^[5] Kahane completed her undergraduate education at the City College of New York and earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley with a dissertation on the fiction of Flannery O'Connor.^[1]

Bibliography

• (Co-editor, with Charles Bernheimer) In Dora's Case: Freud, Hysteria, Feminism (Columbia University Press, 1985; rpt.1990)
  ISBN 9780231059107
• Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative, and the Figure of the Speaking Woman, 1850-1915 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)
  ISBN 9780801851612
• (Co-editor, with Shirley Garner and Madelon Sprengnether) "The (M)Other Tongue:Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation" (Cornell University Press, 1985).