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Sex, Breath, and Force
Sexual Difference in a Post-Feminist Era
Sex, Breath, and Force
Sexual Difference in a Post-Feminist Era
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Living in the post-modern age, there is a growing sentiment of disenchantment in relation to the most facile aspects of dogmatic feminism. Nevertheless, the question of sexual difference still remains. Sex, Breath and Force asks how we should approach such a questioning today, given the fall of the great narratives and the plethora of theoretical discourses in circulation. What are the conditions of possibility for thinking of sexual difference as a foundational problem in the age of technology? And, how do the disciplines of social science, literary studies, philosophy, and film studies answer this challenge? This collection of essays provides a reassessment of the question of sexual difference, taking into account important shifts in feminist thought, post-humanist theories, and queer studies. The contributors offer new and refreshing insights into the complex question of sexual difference from a post-feminist perspective, and how it is reformulated in various related areas of study, such as ontology, epistemology, metaphysics, biology, technology, and mass media.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 The Force of Sexual Difference
Chapter 3 A Difference of Origin
Chapter 4 From Sexual Difference to the Way of Breath: Towards a Feminist Ontology of Ourselves
Chapter 5 "Traces of Otherness"
Chapter 6 Nietzsche in the Feminine? Questioning Nietzche's Will to Power
Chapter 7 Matter, Sexual Difference, and Death in Aristotle
Chapter 8 Secrets and Drive
Chapter 9 The Depressed Sex: Sublimation and Sexual Difference
Chapter 10 Out of the National Closet:Show Me Love
Chapter 11 Differences That Matter? Or: What Is Feminist Critique?
Chapter 12 "Through Desire and Love": Simone de Beauvoir on the Possibilities of Sexual Desire
Product details
| Published | 16 May 2006 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 188 |
| ISBN | 9780739114674 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Dimensions | 231 x 163 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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