Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity /
"Thrilling and provocative, this book is perhaps the essential work of contemporary feminist thought. Its intellectual reference points include Foucault and Freud, Wittig, Kristeva and Irigaray. Indeed, few other academic works have roused passions as much. One of the most talked-about scholarl...
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New York :
Routledge,
[1999]
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=70541 |
Table of Contents:
- One. Subjects of sex/gender/desire ; "Women" as the subject of feminism
- The compulsory order of sex/gender/desire
- Gender : the circular ruins of contemporary debate
- Theorizing the binary, the unitary, and beyond
- Identity, sex, and the metaphysics of substance
- Language, power, and the strategies of displacement
- Two. Prohibition, psychoanalysis, and the production of the heterosexual matrix ; Structuralism's critical exchange
- Lacan, Riviere, and the strategies of masquerade
- Freud and the melancholia of gender
- Gender complexity and the limits of identification
- Reformulating prohibition as power
- Three. Subversive bodily acts ; The body politics of Julia Kristeva
- Foucault, Herculine, and the politics of sexual discontinuity
- Monique Wittig : bodily disintegration and fictive sex
- Bodily inscriptions, performative subversions
- Conclusion. From parody to politics.