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... . MARJORIE GARBER Spare Parts: The Surgical Construction of Gender The JVlaserati I picked up in Modena was a reconditioned model. Previously owned, the car had been lovingly rebuilt by the craftsman who had original(r made it. The guarantee uJas the same as if it had been new. My auto'nobile seemed...

... Translated by Alexander Des Forges Yin and Yang in and out of Equilibrium: Women’s Revenge and the Construction of Han (202 bce–220 ce) and Wei (220–265 ce) Culture Accounts of women from the Ming (1368–1644 ce) and Qing (1644–1911 ce...

... Ontology . London: Verso, 1999 . ewa plonowska ziarek The Abstract Soul of the Commodity and the Monstrous Body of the Sphinx: Commodifi cation, Aesthetics, and the Impasses of Social Construction...

... : Johns Hopkins UP , 1986 . GEORGIA NlGE:\T This Sex Which Is Not One: De-Constructing Ovid's Hermaphrodite Alyth flourishes at the point u'here the social and psychoanalytic overlap, redolent offascination and an.1~'iet..r and generating both creative energy (stories, images) and the "taming...

... in the clinic but as a first-rate foray into “speculative philosophy”: an attempt to locate a “real” that is not given empirically and that therefore demands to be constructed (30). Like Jacques Lacan, who has developed the thesis of the death drive more fully than any other reader of Freud, Deleuze invites us...

...Anna Kornbluh This essay argues that a specifically psychoanalytic theory of solidarity underscores its symbolic dimension. While other traditions conceive solidarity as primarily action or affect, psychoanalytic emphases on free association, punctuation, and construction opens onto a theory...

...Matthew Kirschenbaum Taking as self-evident that the “dark side” under discussion is a discursive construct of the digital humanities rather than “actually existing projects” (a clarifying phrase taken from Rita Raley’s post- mla comments), this essay suggests that the construct is too often...

... the construction of the supersensual reality of the death drive in masochistic fantasy and in fetishistic disavowal, exploring their affinity not only with art and aesthetics but with mathematical and formal constructions. Both help to elucidate Freud’s early insight that the death drive is more mathematical than...

...Judith Butler Returning to Juliet Mitchell’s own rereading of her account of sexual difference, this article takes up the question of how structures of kinship—along with the laws of sexual difference that constitute them—are transmitted. According to Mitchell, the construction of sexual difference...

... biologically in the conventional sense of the nuclear family and constructed more broadly to include a sisterhood of fictive kin—to reimagine how black marriage, sexuality, and kinship are popularly understood. The reliance on queer voices in both Lemonade and 4:44 is parsed in light of the erasure...

..., but through the audacious capacious black female one. And it is this construct of black female rightness, this relationality, that provides a framework for thinking about the many unconventional couplings in Toni Morrison’s Sula , as well as for situating outrageousness in Beyoncé’s Lemonade , both works...

... politics of the contemporary moment, with broad speculation on the political demands, critical inheritances, and contradictory politics of #MeToo. The middle thematic attends to the vicissitudes of sex in the conjuncture between perversion and pleasure, with considerations of the historical construction...

... and discourse, sex offenders are often constructed as sexual predators, oscillating between the rapist and the child molester. The second sense is a cultural category that relies upon highly racialized discourses and representations of sexual deviance and masculinity to define individuals as perpetrators...

... narratives of sovereignty, which construct and shape who holds ultimate authority within a given territory. © 2020 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2020 credit markets debt repayment odious debt sovereign debt nonstatist sovereignty statist sovereignty...

...—that has structured the psychoanalytic social bond from the origins of the talking cure. In putting the subject to grips with the disorienting effects of intersubjectivity, psychoanalysis constructs an ethical relation grounded in the illocutionary enactment of the subject’s negativity, sustaining a bond...

...Joshua Falek Previous scholarship has interrogated how transsexual autobiographies recursively construct a gender-coherent subject through travel analogies. Orientalism has been one of the predominant frames through which these trans travel narratives have been interpreted. Through a close reading...

... as wall-screen has shaped the construction of the Great Firewall as a technological and political project, shifting its conceptual framework from security to sovereignty. Figure 5 Screen capture of an empty page with an error message that displays the blockage of facebook.com by the Great Firewall...

.../feminists in various sites of the neoliberal university. Narrating two experiences at Ivy League institutions, this essay meditates on the voids created and inhabited when the gravity of black study’s insistence on blackness as essential to the construction of modernity collapsed into and under the name...

... of theory and of bodies, are key to the construction of trans knowledges. From there, the essay reads (or perhaps misreads) Giving an Account alongside Susan Stryker’s foundational essay “My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage,” arguing that both Butler...

... for the office of president of the United States. Challenging the practical application of theoretical claims of race as a social construction, “Can’t You See I’m White?” explores the ways in which their racial and gender “difference” from the typical roster of white males seeking the presidency has made some...