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 -- Conclusion: From parody to politics.
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