Derrida and Feminism: Recasting the Question of WomanEllen Feder, Mary C. Rawlinson, Emily Zakin The first-ever compilation of articles that highlights the intersection of Derridean and feminist theories--a work that represents the extensive and diverse response feminist theorists have had to Derrida, particularly to the issues of gender, identity, and the construction of the subject. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Women in Spurs and Nineties Feminism | 7 |
2 Flirting with the Truth Derridas Discourse with Woman and Wenches | 21 |
3 The Maternal Operation Circumscribing the Alliance | 53 |
4 Levers Signatures and Secrets Derridas Use of Woman | 69 |
5 On Not Reading Derridas Texts Mistaking Hermeneutics Misreading Sexual Difference and Neutralizing Narration | 87 |
6 From Euthanasia to the Other of Reason Performativity and the Deconstruction of Sexual Difference | 115 |
7 Dreaming of the Innumerable Derrida Drucilla Cornell and the Dance of Gender | 141 |
8 Where Love Begins Sexual Difference and the Limit of the Masculine Symbolic | 161 |
Contributors | 207 |
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