From Sex Objects to Sexual SubjectsFrom Sex Objects to Sexual Subjects traces some of the ruptures and continuities between the eighteenth-century masculinist formulations of subjectivity elaborated by Rousseau, Diderot and Kant and the contemporary postmodern and feminist critiques of the universal subject--meaning the self viewed as an abstract individual who exercises an impartial and rational (political) judgment that is idential to other similarly defined individuals--developed by Luce Irigaray, Francois Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas, Nancy Fraser, Judith Butler and Michel Foucault. In her work, Moscovici brings together the wide-ranging discussion of subjectivity with debates about public discourse. In so doing she attempts a synthesis between the two discussions that have recently engaged feminist theorists and others. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE TROPE OF DISSIMULATION | 7 |
SEXUAL SUBJECTS | 22 |
TURNING TOWARD THE UNIVERSAL | 33 |
THE FIELD OF CULTURAL PRODUCTION | 62 |
JUSTICE EQUALITY | 75 |
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