Feminist Readings of Antigone

Introduction: Why Antigone Today? 1
Fanny Söderbäck

Prologue: Nomadic Antigone 15
Moira Fradinger

I. Between Past and Future: Feminist Politics in the Private and Public Realms

1. After Antigone: Women, the Past, and the Future of
Feminist Political Thought 27
Catherine A. Holland

2. On the Body of Antigone 45
Adriana Cavarero

3. Impossible Mourning: Sophocles Reversed 65
Fanny Söderbäck

4. The Performative Politics and Rebirth of Antigone in
Ancient Greece and Modern South Africa 83
Tina Chanter

5. The Eternal Irony of the Community 99
Luce Irigaray

6. “the celestial Antigone, the most resplendent figure ever to
have appeared on earth”: Hegel’s Feminism 111
J. M. Bernstein
                               
II. Incestuous Desire: Sexuality, Kinship, and Psychoanalytical Approaches

7. Promiscuous Obedience 133
Judith Butler

8. Antigone’s Line 155
Mary Beth Mader

9. Beyond Pleasure: The Other History of Sexuality 173
Cecilia Sjöholm

10. Transgressing With-In-To the Feminine 195
Bracha L. Ettinger

11. Antigone: Limit and Horizon 215
Julia Kristeva

Bibliography 231