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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Editorial › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - One, two, many
T2 - what is sexual difference now?
AU - Saldanha, Arun
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This introductory essay to the special issue “Sexual Difference between Psychoanalysis and Vitalism” provides a genealogy of the concepts of sexual difference in the Western tradition from Kant through Darwin, Freud, Beauvoir, Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Irigaray, Foucault, Butler, and Deleuze and Guattari. The three main problems running through the essay are how these theorists think of the agency of the biophysical body in the process of sexual differentiation, whether sex is two or a multiplicity, and what the implications are for feminist politics. The essay does not summarize the contributions as they stand very much on their own.
AB - This introductory essay to the special issue “Sexual Difference between Psychoanalysis and Vitalism” provides a genealogy of the concepts of sexual difference in the Western tradition from Kant through Darwin, Freud, Beauvoir, Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Irigaray, Foucault, Butler, and Deleuze and Guattari. The three main problems running through the essay are how these theorists think of the agency of the biophysical body in the process of sexual differentiation, whether sex is two or a multiplicity, and what the implications are for feminist politics. The essay does not summarize the contributions as they stand very much on their own.
KW - sexual difference
KW - feminist theory
KW - psychoanalytic theory
KW - vitalism
U2 - 10.1080/0969725X.2012.701046
DO - 10.1080/0969725X.2012.701046
M3 - Editorial
VL - 17
SP - 1
EP - 29
JO - Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities
JF - Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities
SN - 0969-725X
IS - 2
ER -