Table of Contents:

The Feminist Imagination Versus the Feminist Imaginary by Maria Pia Lara

Introduction

Section One: Three Models of Imagination

1. Introduction
2. Richard Kearny's Model of Imagination as a Creative Faculty
3. Warren Breckman’s Model: The Great Leap into the Imaginary
4. Chiara Bottici's Model: The Imaginal
5.- As a Way of Conclusion: A Critical Argument About the Defense to
Preserve the Creative Faculty of Imagination, the Construction of the Social
Imaginary, and the Late Turn to the Imaginal.

Section Two: The Feminist Imagination and the Feminist Imaginary

1. The Feminist Imaginary
2. The Cinematic Imagination
3. The New Order
4. The Post-Literary Public Sphere and The Feminist Imaginary
5. The Hidden Script of a Country's Reconciliation: A Representation of
Victimhood
6. The Violence of a Country's Context: A Woman as Its Image
7. The Limits of Agency Imposed by Gender Intersections: The Girl in
"Ixcanul"
8. Cinematic Gender Agency: The Films "Wadja" and "The Stone of Patience"
9. A Coda.

Section Three: A Genealogy of Rape

1. Introduction
2. Back to the Beginnings: The Greeks and the Romans
3. Classic Tales of Rape in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
4. Rape as Vengeance: Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus"
 5. The Crime of Seduction in the Eighteenth Century
6. Slavery and the Legacy of Discriminatory
7. Colonialism: The Sexual Slave as a Symbol of Rape
8. Feminist Taking a Stance in the Twentieth Century
9. The Feminist Imaginary on Film

Section Four: Anachronisms and Representations

1. The Cinematic Experience as a Socratic Mode of Thinking
2. Rescuing Koselleck's Notion of Anachronism
3. Revisiting a Cinematic Representation: A Tale about Marital Rape
4. The Representation of Rape in the Male Patriarchal Imaginary
5. The Myth of a Rebirth through the Script of Rape

Section Five: The Promise

1. Invisibility and Visibility
2. Visibility and Domination: Hidden contracts
3. Women as Agents: Dynamics of Action and Visibilities
4. Visibilities and Invisibilities in Other Theories
5. The Promises of Visibility
6. Intersections Versus Institutional Orders

Conclusion