Claire Kahane (born 1935 in New York City)[1] is an American writer, scholar and feminist literary critic.
[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.