Table Of Content1 Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desirei "Women" as the Subject of Feminismii The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desireiii Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debateiv Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary, and Beyondv Idenity, Sex, and the Metaphysics of Substancevi Language, Power, and the Strategies of Displacement2 Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrixi Structuralism's Critical Exchangeii Laca, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masqueradeiii Freud and the Melancholia of Genderiv Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identificationv Reformulating Prohibition as Power3 Subversive Bodily Actsi The Body Politics of Julia Kristevaii Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuityiii Monique Wittig: Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sexiv Bodily Inscriptions, Performative SubervsionsConclusion: From Parody to Politics
SynopsisEver since feminist theory introduced the distinction between sex and gender, the question of what it means to be a woman has preoccupied feminist thought. In Gender Trouble Judith Butler questions whether it is possible to "be" a woman at all or, for that matter, any gender., Ever since feminist theory introduced the distinction between sex and gender, the question of what it means to be a woman has preoccupied feminist thought. In GenderTrouble Judith Butler questions whether it is possible to "be" a woman at all or, for that matter, any gender.