Secret Spaces, Forbidden Places: Rethinking Culture Book

	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: Spaces, Places, Sites/Sights of the Secret and Forbidden
1	Walls, Curtains and Screens: Spatio-Sexual Metaphor in the Kagero nikki	3
2	Secrets of the Forbidden Chamber: Bluebeard	17
3	Secrecy and Masquerade in Stendhal	29
4	Thresholds of Desire and Domestic Space in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction	39
5	Women's Sanctuaries and Spatial Transgressions in the Novels of Jean Giraudoux	51
6	Forbidden Desires: Adolescent Sexuality in Jean Cocteau and Antal Szerb	63
7	Quests in a Cupboard	71
8	Human Interiority and the French Enlightenment	85
9	The Hidden World of the Marais	95
10	Making Ideal Histories: The Film Censorship Board in Postwar France	107
11	Forbidden Reality: the Language and Functions of Propaganda	121
12	Walking a Tightrope Over Forbidden Territory: East German Cinema and Evelyn Schmidt's The Bicycle	133
13	Naming and Exclusion: the Politics of Language in Contemporary France	145
14	Cobwebby States, Chilled Vaults? The Nation State in Contemporary Irish Feminist Poetry	155
15	The Virtual Intersection: a Meditation on Domestic Virtue	170
16	'Anxious Performances': Aestheticism, the Art Gallery and the Ambulatory Geographies of Late Nineteenth-Century London	185
17	You Want to See? Well, take a look at this! Ethical Vision, Disembodiment and Light in Marcel Duchamp's	201
18	Lost in Space Between East and West: Roots Behind the Iron Curtain	217
19	Making Spaces Visible: Alison Wilding's Early Sculpture	231
20	Hidden Spaces and Public Places: Women, Memory and Contemporary Monuments - Jenny Holzer and Rachel Whiteread	247
	Conclusion: Rethinking Culture	261
	Notes on Contributors	263
	Bibliography	267
	Index	285