ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |31 pages

Flirting with the Truth

Derrida's Discourse with ‘Woman’ and Wenches

chapter |16 pages

The Maternal Operation

Circumscribing the Alliance

chapter |17 pages

Levers, Signatures, and Secrets

Derrida's Use of Woman

chapter |27 pages

On Not Reading Derrida's Texts

Mistaking Hermeneutics, Misreading Sexual Difference, and Neutralizing Narration

chapter |26 pages

From Euthanasia to the Other of Reason

Performativity and the Deconstruction of Sexual Difference

chapter |20 pages

Dreaming of the Innumerable

Derrida, Drucilla Cornell, and the Dance Of Gender

chapter |45 pages

Where Love Begins

Sexual Difference and the limit of the Masculine Symbolic