ABSTRACT

Exploring the fields of architecture, philosophy, and queer theory, Grosz shows how feminism and cultural analysis have conceptually stripped bodies of their specificity, their corporeality, and the vestigal traces of their production as bodies. She investigates the work of Michel Foucault, Teresa de Lauretis, Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler and Alphonso Lingi, considering their work by examining the ways in which the functioning of bodies transforms understandings of space and time, knowledge and desire. Grosz moves toward a radical consideration of bodies and their relationship to transgression and perversity.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part One|74 pages

Bodies and Knowledges

chapter 1|16 pages

Sexual Signatures

Feminism After the Death of the Author

chapter 2|19 pages

Bodies and Knowledges

Feminism and the Crisis of Reason

chapter 4|22 pages

Ontology and Equivocation

Derrida’s Politics of Sexual Difference

part Two|57 pages

Space, Time, and Bodies

chapter 5|19 pages

Space, Time, and Bodies

chapter 6|8 pages

Bodies–Cities

chapter 7|14 pages

Women, Chora, Dwelling

chapter 8|13 pages

Architecture from the Outside

part Three|89 pages

Perverse Desire

chapter 9|14 pages

Lesbian Fetishism?

chapter 10|17 pages

Labors of Love

Analyzing Perverse Desire (An Interrogation of Teresa de Lauretis’s The Practice of Love)

chapter 11|13 pages

Refiguring Lesbian Desire

chapter 12|19 pages

Animal Sex

Libido as Desire and Death

chapter 13|21 pages

Experimental Desire

Rethinking Queer Subjectivity