differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies articles from June 1994

differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies archives from June 1994

Against proper objects.(More Gender Trouble: Feminism Meets Queer Theory)
June 22, 1994... A set of paradoxes has emerged within recent debates in feminist and queer theory that complicates any effort to stage a simple stand off between the two domains. Within queer studies generally, a methodological distinction has been offered...

Feminism by any other name. (interview with Rosi Braidotti)(More Gender Trouble: Feminism Meets Queer Theory)(Interview)
June 22, 1994... Rosi Braidotti is Professor and Chair of Women's Studies at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. She received her doctorate in Philosophy from the Sorbonne in Paris, and has worked extensively in the intersections of feminist theory...

Sexual traffic. (interview with Gayle Rubin)(More Gender Trouble: Feminism Meets Queer Theory)(Interview)
June 22, 1994... Gayle Rubin is an anthropologist who has written a number of highly influential articles, including "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex," "Thinking Sex," "The Leather Menace, "and "Misguided, Dangerous and Wrong: An...

Extraordinary homosexuals and the fear of being ordinary.(More Gender Trouble: Feminism Meets Queer Theory)
June 22, 1994... The separation of sexuality from gender, suggested by Gayle Rubin in "Thinking Sex," had the potential to challenge the binary frames within which sexual practices, sexual object choices, sexual desires are collapsed with gender identities and...

Black (W)holes and the geometry of Black female sexuality.(More Gender Trouble: Feminism Meets Queer Theory)
June 22, 1994... The female body in the West is not a unitary sign. Rather, like a coin, it has an obverse and a reverse: on the one side, it is white; on the other, not-white or, prototypically, black. The two bodies cannot be separated, nor can one body be...

Camp, masculinity, masquerade.(More Gender Trouble: Feminism Meets Queer Theory)
June 22, 1994... One might even say that the masculine ideal and the feminine ideal are represented in the psyche by something other than this activity/passivity opposition. . . . Strictly speaking, they spring from a term that I have not introduced, but of...

Melancholic modernity: the hom(m)osexual symptom and the homosocial corpse.(More Gender Trouble: Feminism Meets Queer Theory)
June 22, 1994... The work of Luce Irigaray has provided an enormously powerful analysis of the operations of sexual difference in the structures of the social symbolic. Extending and critiquing the readings offered by Jacques Lacan and Claude Levi-Strauss, she...

Revisiting male Thanatica. (response to article by Trevor Hope in this issue, page 174)(More Gender Trouble: Feminism Meets Queer Theory)
June 22, 1994... I enjoyed Trevor Hope's incisive and brilliantly formulated essay on feminist theory. The author shows an impressive level of understanding of and commitment to issues that are central to feminism, and I consider it a privilege to engage in a...

The "returns" of cartography: mapping identity-in(-)difference. (response to article by Rosi Braidotti in this issue, page 199)(More Gender Trouble: Feminism Meets Queer Theory)
June 22, 1994... I would like to thank Rosi Braidotti for her thoughtful and thought-provoking response to my essay. The engagement in productive "discussion" always implies a certain generosity. Where such discourse takes place across the differential...

Passing: narcissism, identity and difference.(More Gender Trouble: Feminism Meets Queer Theory)
June 22, 1994... Ours is the era of the passing of passing as a politically viable response to oppression. It seems fitting that passing is a verb with no noun-subject form since it is an activity whose agent is obscured, immersed in the mainstream rather than...

The more things change.(More Gender Trouble: Feminism Meets Queer Theory)
June 22, 1994... Displacing Gender Eve Sedgwick's move to separate sexuality from gender in Epistemology of the Closet is no more or less surprising than Gayle Rubin's by now familiar moves to separate gender from sex ("Traffic") and, more recently, feminist...

The labors of love. Analyzing perverse desire: an interrogation of Teresa de Lauretis's 'The Practice of Love.'(More Gender Trouble: Feminism Meets Queer Theory)
June 22, 1994... Beyond Phallic Desire The recent publication of Teresa de Lauretis's long-awaited book, The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire, provides an ideal occasion to reflect on the impact of gay, lesbian, and queer theory on the...

Habit changes. (response to article by Elizabeth Grosz in this issue, page 274)(More Gender Trouble: Feminism Meets Queer Theory)
June 22, 1994... It is true that, so far as we know, no psychical apparatus exists which possesses a primary process only and that such an apparatus is to that extent a theoretical fiction. But this much is a fact: the primary processes are present in the...