Jacqueline Rose (born 1949) is a British academic who is Professor of Humanities at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. She is known for her work on the relationship between

psychoanalysis PsychoanalysisFrom Greek language, Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious mind, unconscious processes and their influence on conscious mind, conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on The Inte ...

feminism Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

and literature.

Life and work

Rose graduated from St Hilda's College, Oxford, and gained her higher degree ('' maîtrise'') from the Sorbonne, Paris. She took her doctorate from the

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, where she was supervised by Frank Kermode. Her elder sister was the philosopher Gillian Rose. Rose's book '' Albertine'', a novel from 2001, is a feminist variation on

Marcel Proust Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( ; ; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the novel (in French – translated in English as ''Remembrance of Things Past'' and more r ...

's '' À la recherche du temps perdu''. Rose is best known for her critical study on the life and work of American poet Sylvia Plath, ''The Haunting of Sylvia Plath'', published in 1991. In the book, Rose offers a

postmodernist Postmodernism encompasses a variety of artistic, Culture, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break from modernism. They have in common the conviction that it is no longer possible to rely upon previous ways of depicting ...

feminist interpretation of Plath's work, and criticises Plath's husband Ted Hughes and other editors of Plath's writing. Rose is a broadcaster and contributor to the ''

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''. Rose's ''States of Fantasy'' (1996) was the inspiration for composer Mohammed Fairouz's Double Concerto of the same title.Moore, Thomas (12 September 2010)
Mohammed Fairouz: An Interview
''Opera Today''. Retrieved 19 April 2011 In 2022, Rose was elected a Fellow of the

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Criticism of Israel

Rose is highly critical of

Zionism Zionism is an Ethnic nationalism, ethnocultural nationalist movement that emerged in History of Europe#From revolution to imperialism (1789–1914), Europe in the late 19th century that aimed to establish and maintain a national home for the ...

, describing it as " avingbeen traumatic for the Jews as well as the

Palestinians Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenou ...

". In the same interview, Rose points to the internal critique of Zionism expressed by

Martin Buber Martin Buber (; , ; ; 8 February 1878 – 13 June 1965) was an Austrian-Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I and Thou, I–Thou relationship and the I� ...

and Ahad Ha'am. In ''The Question of Zion'' Rose argued that Israel is responsible for "some of the worst cruelties of the modern nation-state". Israeli historian Alexander Yakobson described this as "moralizing" and disconnected from historical reality.

Bibliography

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"Those opposing a cultural and academic boycott of Israel should examine the South African precedent, says Jacqueline Rose"

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, 4 September 2005. Rose's position on an academic and cultural boycott of Israel.
"This land is your land"
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'', 18 August 2002. Rose's views on the state of Israel.
"What Zionism is Not, a review of ''The Question of Zion'' from a Zionist perspective"
'' The Weekly Standard'', 14 November 2005
Interview
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'', 4 January 2003
"The Ideas Interview: Jacqueline Rose"
– John Sutherland, ''The Guardian'', 28 November 2005
Israel and Resistance: an interview with Jacqueline Rose
''State of Nature'', Winter 2008

with Avi Shlaim and Shlomo Sand at the Frontline Club, London, 12 November 2009 {{DEFAULTSORT:Rose, Jacqueline 1949 births 20th-century British non-fiction writers 20th-century British women writers 21st-century British non-fiction writers 21st-century British women writers Academics of Queen Mary University of London Alumni of St Hilda's College, Oxford British feminists British Jews Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Jewish British feminists Jewish philosophers Living people People educated at Ealing County Grammar School for Girls Translators of Jacques Lacan University of Paris alumni Women and psychology Writers of books about writing fiction Jewish British anti-Zionists British anti-Zionists Feminism and psychoanalysis