Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 The "Impossible Dialectic": Julia Kristeva; Chapter 2 The Anxiety of Irony: Søren Kierkegaard; Chapter 3 Unsustainable Change? The Traps of Ironic Femininity; Chapter 4 "Irony and Something Else": Jacques Derrida; Chapter 5 Miming History: Sarah Kofman; Afterword The Lesson of Irony, The Future of Feminism; Works Cited
Summary
Contemporary feminist theorists have implied a special affinity between women and irony because of their 'double' relation to the prevailing order of things: both speak from within this order while remaining 'other' to it in some way. Irony can be regarded as the obvious mode in which a feminist might speak, as it reflects her relation to the patriarchal structure while refusing to validate the truth of the current sexual hierarchy. She Changes by Intrigue undertakes the first sustained analysis of the parallels between irony, femininity and feminism. By retracing the association of these term
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252)
