Gender Trouble : Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Preface (1999)  Preface (1990)  1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire  I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism  II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire  III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate  IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond  V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance  VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement  2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix  I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange  II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade  III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender  IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification  V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power  3. Subversive Bodily Acts  I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva  II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity  III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex  IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions  Conclusion - From Parody to Politics