Abstract

This dissertation argues that theories positing a view of the subject and of sexual identity as fundamentally conflicted and divided are, paradoxically, the formulations best able to provide a basis for feminist theory/politics. Furthermore, it is argued that this conflict and division occurs not only at the level of the subject but also reoccurs at the levels of politics and of theory. The implication of such a view for feminist theory/politics is that rather than the resolution of conflicts and the amelioration of difference , the aim should be the productive proliferation of politics, theories, and subject positions; a struggle for more and better conflict rather than for an end to all conflict