Introducing Postfeminism

Cover......Page 1
Title Page\r......Page 3
Copyright\r......Page 4
What is Postfeminism?......Page 5
The Origins of Postfeminism......Page 6
French Feminisms......Page 7
féministes révoiutionnaires......Page 10
Essentialism......Page 14
The Problem of Humanism......Page 15
The po et psych......Page 16
Freudian Psychoanalysis......Page 17
What is Hysteria......Page 18
The Case of Anna O.......Page 19
Breuer\'s Discovery: The Talking Cure......Page 20
Sexuality and the Unconscious......Page 21
The Story of Sexuality......Page 22
The Oedipus Complex......Page 23
Difference and Penis Envy......Page 24
The Mother\'s Body......Page 28
Object Relations......Page 30
Conflict with Anna Freud......Page 31
The Womanly Masquerade......Page 32
Linguistic Difference......Page 34
Structuralism......Page 36
Binary Oppositions......Page 37
A Linguistic Model of Psychoanalysis......Page 38
Freud\'s Psycho-Dynamic Model......Page 39
The Ego......Page 40
The Super-Ego......Page 41
The Imaginary and the Real......Page 42
The Mirror Phase: the Ego Ideal......Page 43
The Symbolic Order......Page 44
The Phallus and Feminist Criticism......Page 46
Logocentrism and Deconstruction......Page 48
Speech, Writing and Différance......Page 50
Phallogocentrism......Page 51
Writing: écriture féminine......Page 52
Sorties......Page 54
The Imaginary......Page 55
Feminine Jouissance......Page 56
Irigaray\'s Critique of Freudian Psychoanalysis......Page 58
Irigaray\'s Critique of Lacanian Psychoanalysis......Page 60
Kristeva and Feminism......Page 62
Kristeva\'s Semiotic......Page 64
The Chora......Page 65
The Thetic and the Symbolic......Page 66
Bodily Horror and Abjection......Page 68
French Versus Anglo-American Feminism......Page 70
Challenges within Anti-Essentialism......Page 71
Decoding Popular Culture......Page 74
Advertising the Body......Page 76
The Body and the Gaze......Page 78
Romantic Fiction and Pornography......Page 83
Feminists Against Pornography......Page 84
Feminists Against Censorship......Page 85
Libertine Feminists......Page 86
Postmodernism and Postfeminism\r......Page 87
What is Postmodernism?......Page 88
What Makes Science Legitimate?......Page 89
Knowledge as Techno-Consumerism......Page 90
Feminism and Postmodernism......Page 91
A Theory of Hyperreality......Page 92
Pastiche and Parody......Page 94
The Genealogy of Power......Page 96
The Panopticon......Page 98
On Positive Sexuality: Scientia Sexualis......Page 99
Confession is Good For You......Page 100
Feminist Critiques of Foucault......Page 101
Gynesis......Page 102
Psychoanalysis and Lesbianism......Page 103
Lesbianism and Feminism......Page 104
Lesbianism and Irigaray......Page 105
Queer Theory......Page 106
Plural Sexual Practices......Page 108
Performative Identification......Page 109
Allo- and Auto-Identification......Page 110
Deconstructing Derrida......Page 111
Deconstructing the Hymen......Page 112
The Questioning Woman......Page 113
Postcolonial or Subaltern Muteness......Page 114
Who Speaks in Multiculturalism?......Page 116
Race and Psychoanalysis......Page 117
Race, Feminism and Psychoanalysis......Page 118
Postmodernism and Black Experience......Page 120
Orientalism......Page 122
Feminism and Moral Philosophy......Page 124
Traditional Ethical Philosophy......Page 125
Brief Introduction to Virtue Theory......Page 126
The Existentialists......Page 128
Virtue Theorists......Page 131
Genetic Engineering and Ethics......Page 138
Cyberfeminism......Page 140
Versus Marxism, Psychoanalysis and . . .......Page 142
. . . feminism......Page 143
The Cyborg Self......Page 144
Postfeminism as Cyber-virus......Page 145
Feminist Cyberpunk......Page 146
Postfeminism and Film Theory......Page 147
The Cinematic Gaze......Page 150
Postfeminism and Dance......Page 153
Psychoanalysis and Art Criticism......Page 154
The Maternal in Art......Page 156
Psychoanalysis and the Maternal......Page 157
Lacan\'s Pre-Linguistic Maternal......Page 158
Kristeva\'s Semiotic Maternal......Page 159
A Criticism of Kristeva......Page 160
Art and the Maternal......Page 161
Postfeminist Art Criticism......Page 164
From Avantgarde to Postmodern Art......Page 165
Two Views of Avantgardism......Page 166
Postmodern Artists......Page 168
Postfeminism into the Future......Page 172
Further Reading......Page 174
Index......Page 177
Back Cover\r......Page 180