Derrida and Feminism Recasting the Question of Woman [Paperback]

The first-ever compilation of articles that highlights the intersection of Derridean and feminist theories--a work that represents the extensive and diverse response feminist theorists have had to Derrida, particularly to the issues of gender, identity, and the construction of the subject.Introduction -- Ellen K. Feder, Mary C. Rawlinson, andEmily Zakin; 1. Jane Gallop -- Women in Spurs and Nineties Feminism; 2. Ellen K. Feder and Emily Zakin-- Flirting with the Truth: Derrida's Discourse with 'Woman' and Wenches; 3. Kelly Oliver-- The MaternalOperation: Circumscribing the Alliance; 4. Mary C.Rawlinson--Levers, Signatures, and Secrets: Derrida's Useof Woman; 5. Tina Chanter -- On Not Reading Derrida's Texts: Mistaking Hermeneutics, Misreading Sexual Difference, and Neutralizing Narration; 6. EwaPlonowska Ziarek -- From Euthanasia to the Other of Reason: Performativity and the Deconstruction of Sexual Difference; 7. John D. Caputo -- Dreaming of the Innumerable: Derrida, Drucilla Cornell, and the Dance of Gender; 8. Drucilla Cornell -- Where Love Begins: Sexual Difference and the Limit of the Masculine Symbolic.

Ellen K. Federteaches in the Department of Philosophy at Vassar College.

Mary C. Rawlinsonis Associate Professor of Philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook.

Emily Zakinteaches in the Department of Philosophy at Miami University.