differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies articles from September 1996

differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies archives from September 1996

Accommodating merchants: accounting, civility, and the natural laws of gender.(women historical roles in double-entry bookkeeping;Thomas Mun's and Edward Misselden's 17th century merchant guides)
September 22, 1996... Feminist historians (including myself) have spent a good part of the last twenty years trying to explain how and why women have been systematically excluded from equal participation in an entire range of human activities, from waged labor to...

Projects for a scientific psychology: Freud, Derrida, and connectionist theories of cognition.
September 22, 1996... The utility of Freud to many theoretical-critical projects seems to depend on the ease and clarity with which certain concepts (e.g., castration, Trieb, ego, femininity) can be disassociated from the scientific foundation that Freud ascribes...

"This body of my dreams": Descartes on the body of language.(Rene Descartes' Optics and other works)
September 22, 1996... Rene Descartes made a famous distinction between sensible and intelligible perception. With that came a revision of the linguistic sign as used by science (scientia), the sign, for Descartes, being arbitrarily conceived, having the function...

Technoasceticism and authorial death in Sade, Kafka, Barthes, and Foucault.
September 22, 1996... Le moi est haissable. (Pascal 351) Comfort-Technology-Asceticism There is something uncomfortably comforting in the death of the author. After all, where the mere thought of "work in progress" and continued authorial vitality is...

Identity and nonidentity in aesthetic theory.(interpretation of works of Julia Kristeva, Theodor Adorno)
September 22, 1996... In this essay, I address two distinct approaches to the topic of aesthetics. First, I consider the aesthetic sensibilities of Julia Kristeva, whose writings on painting, literature, music, and other art forms bring the aesthetic to bear on...

Black Skins Masked: Finding Fanon in Isaac Julien's Frantz Fanon: "Black Skin, White Masks".
September 22, 1996... It is indicative of the political climate at the close of the millennium that films by such luminaries as Charles Burnett, Haile Gerima, Julie Dash, and Euzhan Paley are not greeted as major cultural events. In their stead, perhaps because...