Table of Content
PREFACE I. SUBJECTS OF SEX/GENDER/DESIRE i. "Women" as the Subject of Feminism ii. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire iii. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate iv. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond v. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance vi. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement II. PROHIBITION, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE PRODUCTION OF THE HETEROSEXUAL MATRIX i. Structuralism's Critical Exchange ii. Lacan, Riviere and the Strategies of Masquerade iii. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender iv. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification v. Reformulating Prohibition as Power III. SUBVERSIVE BODILY ACTS i. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva ii. Foucault, Herculine and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity iii. Monique Wittig: Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex iv. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions CONCLUSION: From Parody to Politics
