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Eros and Civilization (Marcuse), 92
Fausto-Sterling, Anne, 137–41
fêlure, 71, feminism debates within, 18–22;
foundationalist frame of and patriarchy, and politics, 181–90; and sexual difference, 35–44; women as
“subject” of, 3–9, 19–22, 181–90
Ferenczi, Sandor, Foucault, Michel on category of sex, 23, 24, 31–32, 117–18,
123–35; on genealogy, on homosexuality, 83, on inscription, 171–73; on repressive hypothesis, 83, Franklin, Aretha, n. Freud, Sigmund, 36–37, 54, n. 15, 207nn. 33, Gallop, Jane, Garbo, Greta, 163
Geertz, Clifford, 48, gender category of, 9–11; construction of, 11–13, 40–44, as incredible, 180; in language overthrow of, 95–96,
151–54; as performative as regulatory, 23–33,
42–43; vs. sex, 9–11, 23–33,
47–48, genealogy, feminist, 9, 165, genetics, sex and, 135–41
Guérillères, Les (Wittig), 152–53,
160–61
Guillaumin, Collette, n. 40
Haar, Michel, Heath, Stephen, 67–68, n. Hegel, G.W.F., 51–52, 131, n. 21, n. 14
Herculine Barbin, Being the Recently
Discovered Journals of a Nineteenth-
Century Hermaphrodite (Foucault),
31–32, 120, heterosexuality, compulsory, 24–26,
30–31, 34–35, heterosexual matrix, 42–43,
45–100
History of Sexuality,The,Volume 1
(Foucault), 31–32, 83, 96, 117,
120–24, homosexuality Foucault on, 83,
130–31; Freud on, 80–84; Lacan on, 62–64; Kristeva on, and melancholy, 73–84; Riviere on, 64–68; taboo against, 80–84,
87–88, 168–70;Wittig on,
24–33
hooks, bell, n. Husserl, Edmund, identification in gender, 40–41,
80–91, n. identity category of, 22–33; construction of, 173–77; politics of,
181–90
imitation, 41, impersonation, 174–80
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incest taboo, 52–55, 80, 83–84,
87–88, 110, n. incorporation of identity, internalization, 170–74, n. In the Penal Colony (Kafka, 166,
186, n. 1
Irigaray, Luce, 14–18, 25–27,
34–37, 40, 52, 53, 60, n. 54
Jameson, Fredric, 176, n. Joan Riviere and the Masquerade”
(Heath), Jones, Ernest, 64
jouissance, 55, Kafka, Franz, 166, 186, n. n. Kant, Immanuel, kinship, 37, 49–55, 91–100, Klein, Melanie, n. 32
Kristeva, Julia on the abject on Lacan, 101–2,
104–5; on lesbianism, and the maternal body, on melancholy, 73, n. as orientalist, 114; on repression, 115–17; on the
Symbolic, 102, 104–10
Lacan, Jacques Kristeva on, 101–2,
104–5; and lesbian sexuality and the Law, 55, 59,
70–72; and masquerade, on the Phallus, 56–60; on sexual difference, 36–39; on the Symbolic, 57, 70–73,
101–2, language and culture, 55; gender in poetic, 101–12; and identity, 182–86; and power,
33–44
law, paternal, 86–88, 101–2,
118–19, n. Law, the, 55, 59, Leibniz, Gottfried, 51
Lesbian Body,The (Wittig), 35–36,
153, 159–60, lesbianism and the body, 35–36,
159–60, 163–71; identities within Lacan on, and overthrow of heterosexuality and subject- hood, 25–27; vs. category of women, 26–27, 162–63
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 49–55, Life in the XY Corral (Fausto-
Sterling), 137–41
literalization, 87–91
Local Knowledge (Geertz), Locke, John, 158
MacCormack, Carol, Marcuse, Herbert, Mark of Gender,The” (Wittig),
28–29
Marx, Karl, 8, 34, 44, masquerade, 60–73, n. melancholia, 73–84, n. n. 32
Mother Camp Female Impersonators in
America (Newton), 163, Motherhood According to Bellini”
(Kristeva), mourning, 73–84, Mourning and Melancholia”
(Freud), 73–74, Newton, Esther, 163, n. 22
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Nietzsche, Friedrich, 27–28, 33, 73,
166, 171, n. Oedipal complex, the, One Is Not Born a Woman”
(Wittig), 143–44
On the Genealogy of Morals
(Nietzsche), 33, 73, n. On the Social Contract (Wittig),
159, n. 49
Order of Things, The (Foucault), 131
Owen,Wendy, n. 46, n. Page, David, 136–41
Panizza, Oscar, Paradigm (Wittig), parody, 41–42, 174–77, pastiche, 176, patriarchy, 45–46
performativity, 171–90 person, unversal conception of,
14–15
phallogocentrism, 15, 18, 37, Phallus, the, Plato, 17, 92, 116
Pleasure and Danger (Vance),
200–201n. 53, n. pleasures, proliferation of,
35–36
Policing Desire:AIDS, Pornography, and
the Media (Watney), politics and being 150–51; coali- tional, 20–22; feminist, 3–9,
181–90; of identity, Postmodernism and Consumer
Society” (Jameson), power and category of sex, 25,
155–58; and language, prohibition as, 91–100; and volition, 158
Powers of Horror (Kristeva), Proust, Marcel, psychoanalytic accounts of sexual difference, 33–39, 44–100
Purity and Danger (Douglas), redeployment of categories, repetition, 141–42, 76–77, representation, problems of, repression, 82–84, 104–5, 115–17
Revolution in Poetic Language
(Kristeva), Riley, Denise, 6
Riviere, Joann. Rose, Jacqueline, 37–38, 41, n. 51, n. Rubin, Gayle, 92–96, 115, n. n. 45
Same/Other binary, 131–33
Sarraute, Natalie, Sartre, Jean-Paul, 17, n. 21
Schafer, Roy, 86
Second Sex,The (de Beauvoir, 15–18,
35, 141, 143
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, n. semiotic, the, 101–19 sex category of, 9–11; fictive, 141–63; and genetics vs. gender, 9–11,
23–33, 47–48, 141–65; and identity, 23–33; as project,
177–78
“Sex-Determining Region of the
Human Y Chromosome Encodes a Finger Protein (Page, 136–41
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Sexes et parents (Irigaray), sexuality, 31–33, 40–44, 92–96,
120–24, signifying economy, masculinist,
18–19
“slave morality 72–73, n. 30
Soleil noir: Dépression et mélancholie
(Kristeva), space, internal, 86–91, 170–71
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty,
197n. 23, n. 18
Stoller, Robert, Straight Mind,The” (Wittig), 45,
159
Strathern, Marilyn, structuralism, subject, the, 3–9, 19–22, 36–41, 48,
149–54, 169–70, substance, metaphysics of, 25–28,
34, Symbolic, the, 50–53, 57, 70–73,
102, 104–10
Symposium (Plato), 116
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
(Freud), 36, 52, 140
Torok, Maria, 86–87
Totem and Taboo (Freud), Traffic of Women:The ‘Political
Economy’ of Sex (Rubin),
92–96
transsexuality, 90
Tristes tropiques (Lévi-Strauss), Tyler, Parker, unity universality 15–16
Use of Pleasure,The (Foucault),
135–36
Vance, Carol Sn. n. Walton, Shirley, n. 22
Washburn, Linda L, 138–41
Watney, Simon, 168
Wittig, Monique and de Beauvoir and category of sex, 34–39, 143–48, and heterosexual contract, 147–50, 153–55; and
Lacan, 36–39; and language, 141,
147–55, 159–63, n. 42; as materialist, 34–37, 151–52, Womanliness as a Masquerade”
(Riviere), women as being the Phallus, 70–71; category of, 4–9,
19–22, 162–64; as object of exchange, 49–55; as subject of feminism, 3–9, 19–22, 181–90
Writing and Difference (Derrida), Young, Iris Marion, 170
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