Continental Feminism Reader

by Cahill, Ann J.; Hansen, Jennifer; Butler, Judith; Braidotti, Rosi; Brennan, Teresa; Oliver, Kelly; Cornell, Drucilla; Laureti, Teresa de; Gatens, Moira; Grosz, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780742523081
• ISBN10: 074252308X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-11
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Ann J. Cahill and Jennifer Hansen collect the most groundbreaking recent work in Continental feminist theory, introducing and explaining pieces that are often mystifying to those outside the field and outside academia. With these essays, Continental Feminism Reader begins the process of reanimating feminist politics through the critical tools of its contributors.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(22)
Ann J. Cahill
Jennifer Hansen
Judith Butler
Introduction: The Politics of Sexual Identity	23	(6)
Ann J. Cahill
Gender Trouble	29	(1)
Judith Butler
```Woman' As the Subject of Feminism''	29	(5)
``Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions''	34	(13)
``Conclusion: From Parody to Politics''	47	(10)
Rosi Braidotti
Introduction: Nomadic Subjectivity	57	(5)
Ann J. Cahill
Sexual Difference As a Nomadic Political Project	62	(27)
Rosi Braidotti
Teresa Brennan
Introduction: Detours and Delays	89	(7)
Jennifer Hansen
Social Pressure	96	(28)
Teresa Brennan
Essence against Identity	124	(13)
Teresa Brennan
Kelly Oliver
Introduction: Abjected Maternal Love and Paternal Pathology	137	(7)
Jennifer Hansen
The Morality of American Manhood, Responsibility, and Virility	144	(24)
Kelly Oliver
What Is Transformative about the Performative? From Repetition to Working-Through	168	(23)
Kelly Oliver
Drucilla Cornell
Introduction: Equivalent Rights	191	(5)
Jennifer Hansen
Living Together: Psychic Space and the Demand for Sexual Equality	196	(25)
Drucilla Cornell
Teresa De Lauretis
Introduction: Women Writing Passionate Fictions of Woman	221	(7)
Jennifer Hansen
Through the Looking Glass: Women, Cinema, and Language	228	(25)
Teresa de Lauretis
Moira Gatens
Introduction: Imaginary Bodies and Real Difference	253	(5)
Ann J. Cahill
Power, Bodies, and Difference	258	(17)
Moira Gatens
Toward a Feminist Philosophy of the Body	275	(12)
Moira Gatens
Elizabeth Grosz
Introduction: The Promise of the Unruly Body	287	(5)
Ann J. Cahill
Sexed Bodies	292	(31)
Elizabeth Grosz
Index	323	(4)
About the Editors	327