differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies articles from March 1997

differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies archives from March 1997

Nothing works anymore! (human sexuality)
March 22, 1997... There's no more future in sex, if indeed there ever was! "In Las Vegas, just as in human sexuality, it all begins when nothing's working anymore, and then the wheel spins and everything's up for grabs." This remark, caught in the midst of a...

The sirens and feminine 'Jouissance.'
March 22, 1997... When we hear the sound of a siren, we immediately think, "Danger!" or maybe even, "Death!" During wartime, the codified signal of sirens warns of enemy attacks, and during peacetime, sirens alert people to fires or medical emergencies. In some...

"The scene came alive": autobiography and anger.
March 22, 1997... I should like to consider some of the difficulties involved in discussing anger and, more particularly, to dwell on the relations between this emotion (which is often judged to be somehow present even though unfelt) and the various mechanisms...

Gender and patrimony: mourning the dead father.
March 22, 1997... I have to claim my father . . . [but] in order to claim him I have in a sense to expose him. (Rich 176) In the last several years there has been a notable convergence of interest both in and outside the academy in the cultural consequences of...

Sex, symbolism, and psychoanalysis.
March 22, 1997... Psychoanalysis is not only, perhaps not even primarily, a doctrine. It is also an institution, a technique, an organisation, an ethic, a theory of knowledge, an idiom and a climate of opinion. Implicitly it contains theories of politics,...

The body that puts the mind on trial.
March 22, 1997... To roam through the Modern Language Association book exhibition (or thumb through some of the publishers' brochures distributed by the MLA) is, for a good part of the way, not unlike walking through a forest of "erotic bodies." Titles...