Sex, Breath, and Force Sexual Difference in a Post-Feminist Era

by Mortensen, Ellen; Dean, Jodi; Egeland, Cathrine; Grosz, Elizabeth; Heinämaa, Sara; Käll, Lisa; Oksala, Johanna; Oliver, Kelly; Rosenberg, Tiina; Sampson, Kristin; Songe-Møller, Vigdis

• ISBN13: 9780739114674
• ISBN10: 0739114670
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-16
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

This collection of essays provides a reassessment of the question of sexual difference, taking into account important shifts in feminist thought, post-humanist theories, and queer studies. The contributors offer new and refreshing insights into the complex question of sexual difference from a post-feminist perspective, and how it is reformulated in various related areas of study, such as ontology, epistemology, metaphysics, biology, technology, and mass-media.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction by Ellen Mortensen	1	(128)
1 Elizabeth Grosz: The Force of Sexual Difference	7	(10)
2 Kristin Sampson: A Difference of Origin	17	(16)
3 Johanna Oksala: From Sexual Difference to The Way of Breath: Toward a Feminist Ontology of Ourselves	33	(16)
4 Lisa Käll: "Traces of Otherness"	49	(10)
5 Ellen Mortensen: Nietzsche in the Feminine? Questioning Nietzsche's Will to Power	59	(12)
6 Vigdis Songe-Møller: Matter, Gender and Death in Aristotle	71	(10)
7 Jodi Dean: Secrets and Drive	81	(16)
8 Kelly Oliver: The Depressed Sex: Sublimation and Sexual Difference	97	(14)
9 Tiina Rosenberg: Out of the National Closet: Show Me Love	111	(18)
10 Cathrine Egeland: Differences that Matter? Or: What is Feminist Critique?	129	(16)
11 Sara Heinämaa: "Through Desire and Love": Simone de Beauvoir on the Possibilities of Sexual Desire	145	(22)
Index	167	(10)
About the Contributors	177