Nothing Mat(t)ers : Feminist Critique of Postmodernism.

Lévi-Strauss tried to convince women that we are spoken, exchanged like words; Lacan tried to teach women we can't speak, because the phallus is the original signifier; and then Derrida says that it doesn't matter, it's just talk. Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Nietzsche: the chant resonat...

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Main Author: Brodribb, Somer, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Spinifex Press, 1992.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781742191409
1742191401
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: THE LABYRINTH; 1 A SPACE ODYSSEY; 2 NOTHINGNESS AND DE/GENERATION; 3 EXISTENCE AND DEATH; 4 NEUTRALITY AND DE/MEANING; 5 LACAN AND IRIGARAY: ETHICAL LACK AND ETHICAL PRESENCE; 6 OUT OF OBLIVION; REFERENCES; PERMISSIONS; INDEX.