Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • From parody to politics.