Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity

Subjects of sex/gender/desire. "Women" as the subject of feminism

The compulsory order of sex/gender/desire

Gender : the circular ruins of contemporary debate

Theorizing the binary, the unitary, and beyond

Identity, sex, and the metaphysics of substance

Language, power, and the strategies of displacement

Prohibition, psychoanalysis, and the production of the heterosexual matrix. Structuralism's critical exchange

Lacan, Riviere, and the strategies of masquerade

Freud and the melancholia of gender

Gender complexity and the limits of identification

Reformulating prohibition as power

Subversive bodily acts. The body politics of Julia Kristeva

Foucault, Herculine, and the politics of sexual discontinuity

Monique Wittig : bodily disintegration and fictive sex

Bodily inscriptions, performative subversions

Conclusion: From parody to politics.