Questioning Sexuality
From Psychoanalysis to Gender Theory and Beyond
1st Edition
Published on 31. August 2024
320 pages
978-1-3995-3512-0 (ISBN)
Description
Western thinking on sexuality has historically affirmed not only a binary division between two sexes, each of which is defined by unique fixed attributes that delineate its essence, but also a privileging of the masculine over the feminine and heteronormative relations over alternatives. By engaging with psychoanalytic theory, phenomenology, feminist and gender theory, and the new materialisms, Gavin Rae shows how this model came under sustained and heterogeneous attack in the twentieth century. Rather than affirm one of these critical trajectories, Rae rethinks the problematic by turning to Walter Benjamin's notion of concepts as constellations to develop an alternative model called sexuality as constellation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
File size
0,72 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-3512-0 (9781399535120)
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Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Introduction: The Problem of Sex(uality)
- Part I. Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology
- 1. Freud on Sexuality and the Feminine
- 2. Heidegger, Fundamental Ontology, and Sexuality
- 3. Merleau-Ponty on the Sexed Body
- Part II. Feminism and (Post)Structuralism
- 4. Beauvoir and the Question of "Woman"
- 5. Lacan, the Symbolic Phallus, and Sexual Difference
- 6. Irigaray on Sexual Difference: Jamming the Patriarchal Machine
- Part III. Gender Theory and Queer Materialities
- 7. Butler and Performativity: Thinking Sex through Gender
- 8. Barad, Agential Realism, and Queer Theory
- Conclusion: Sexuality as Constellation
- Bibliography
- Index
