From Sex Objects to Sexual Subjects

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Psychology Press, 1996 - Philosophy - 106 pages
From 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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Claudia Moscovici is in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University.

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