peau (Paris: Bordas, 1985), published in English as The Skin Ego A
Psychoanalytic Theory of the Self, trans. Chris Turner (New Haven Yale
University Press, 1989).
44. See chapter 2, n. 4. Hereafter page references to this essay will appear in the text. See Gayle Rubin, Thinking Sex Notes fora Radical Theory of the
Politics of Sexuality in Pleasure and Danger, pp. 267–319. Rubin’s presentation on power and sexuality at the 1979 conference on Simone de
Beauvoir’s The Second Sex occasioned an important shift in my own thinking about the constructed status of lesbian sexuality. See (or, rather, don’t see) Joseph Shepher, ed, Incest: A Biosocial View
(London: Acadaemic Press, 1985) fora deterministic account of incest. See Michele Z. Rosaldo, The Use and Abuse of Anthropology Reflections on Feminism and Cross-Cultural Understanding Signs: Journal of
Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1980.
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48. Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, trans. James Strachey (New York Basic Books, 1962), p. 7. 49. Peter Dews suggests in The Logics of Disintegration Post-Structuralist Thoughtand the Claims of Critical Theory (London: Verso, 1987) that Lacan’s appropriation of the Symbolic from Lévi-Strauss involves a considerable narrowing of the concept In Lacan’s adaptation of Lévi-Strauss, which transforms the latter’s multiple symbolic systems into a single symbolic order, the neglect of the possibilities of systems of meaning promoting or masking relations of force remains (p. 105). 3. Subversive Bodily Acts. This section, The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva,” was originally published in Hypatia, in the special issue on French Feminist Philosophy,Vol. 3, No. Winter 1989, pp. 104–118. 2. Julia Kristeva, Revolution in Poetic Language, trans. Margaret Walker, introduction by Leon Roudiez (New York Columbia University Press, p. 132. The original text is La Revolution du language poetique (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1974). 3. Ibid, p. 25. 4. Julia Kristeva, Desire in Language,A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, p. 135. See chapter 2, n. 32. This is a collection of essays compiled from two different sources Polylogue (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1977), and Recherches pour une sémanalyse (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1969). 5. Ibid, p. 135. 6. Ibid, p. 134. 7. Ibid, p. 136. 8. Ibid. Ibid, p. 239. 10. Ibid, pp. 239–240. 11. Ibid, p. 240. For an extremely interesting analysis of reproductive metaphors as descriptive of the process of poetic creativity, see Wendy Owen, “A Riddle in Nine Syllables Female Creativity in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath,” doctoral dissertation, Yale University, Department of English. Kristeva, Desire in Language, p. 239. Gender Trouble210
13. Ibid, p. 239. 14. Gayle Rubin, The Traffic in Women Notes on the Political Economy ofSex,” p. 182. See chapter 2, n. 4. 15. See Plato’s Symposium, 209a: Of the “procreancy . . . of the spirit he writes that it is the specific capacity of the poet. Hence, poetic creations are understood as sublimated reproductive desire. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality,Volume I An Introduction, trans. Robert Hurley (New York:Vintage, 1980), p. 154. 17. Michel Foucault, ed, Herculine Barbin, Being the Recently Discovered Memoirsof a Nineteenth Century Hermaphrodite, trans. Richard McDongall (New York: Colophon, 1980), originally published as Herculine Barbin, diteAlexina B. present par Michel Foucault (Paris: Gallimard, 1978). All references will be from the English and French versions of that text. The notion of sex made it possible to group together, in an artificial unity, anatomical elements, biological functions, conducts, sensations, pleasures, and it enabled one to make use of this fictitious unity as a causal principle Foucault, The History of Sexuality,Volume Ii p. 154. See chapter 3, section i, where the passage is quoted. Sexual Choice, Sexual Act Foucault and Homosexuality trans. James
O’Higgins, originally printed in Salmagundi, Vols. 58–59, Fall Winter 1983, pp. 10–24; reprinted in Michel Foucault, Politics, Philosophy,
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