| Description |
xiv, 172 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Thinking gender |
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Thinking gender.
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| Contents |
Preface -- 1. 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 -- 2. 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 -- 3. 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 |
| Analysis |
Man Sexes Cultural aspects |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Femininity.
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Feminist theory.
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Identity (Psychology)
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Sex differences (Psychology)
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Sex role.
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| LC no. |
89006438 |
| ISBN |
0415900425 |
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0415900433 (paperback) |
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0415924995 |
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9780415900423 |
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9780415900430 (paperback) |
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9780415924993 |
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