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Preface ix Acknowledgements xi 1 Thinking Through the Body: An Introduction to Beliefs, 1 Bodies and Being Deborah Orr 2 Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding 11 of How Matter Comes to Matter Karen Barad 3 Monstrous Reflections on the Mirror of the Self-Same 37 Margrit Shildrick 4 Ontology and Feminism 49 Käthe Trettin 5 Diotima, Wittgenstein and a Language for Liberation 59 Deborah Orr 6 Re-situating the Feminine in Contemporary French 81 Philosophy Louise Burchill 7. Being and Time, Non-Being and Space . . . 103 Introductory Notes Toward an Ontological Study of 'Woman' and Chora' Jana Braziel 8 To Take a Chance with Meaning under 127 the Veil of Words: Transpositions, Mothers and Learning in Julia Kristeva's Theory of Language Bettina Schmitz 9 In Search of the Body in the Cave: Luce 141 Irigaray's Ethics of Embodiment Tonja van den Ende 10 Reconsidering the Notion of the Body in 151 Anti-essentialism, With the Help of Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler Annemie Halsema 11 Butler's Sophisticated Constructivism: 163 A Critical Assessment Veronica Vasterling 12 A Critique of Feminist Radical Contructionism 185 Saskia Wendel 13 Applying Time to Feminist Philosophy of the Body 197 Lanei Rodemeyer Contributors 211 Index 215
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Feminist theory.
Body, Human.