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differences (1989) 1 (2): 3–37.
Published: 01 July 1989
... of Essentialism Seriously: Feminist Theory in Italy, the U.S., and Britain B pure coincidence, if there were such a thing, returning from a two-month stay in Italy where feminist theory was blooming more impressively than the spring, I happened upon two essays that refocused my reflection on the Anglo-American...
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differences (1989) 1 (2): 38–58.
Published: 01 July 1989
... ( 1986 ): 3 - 8 . NAOMI SCHOR This Essentialism Which Is Not One: Coming To Grips With Irigaray A Jacques Derrida pointed out several years ago, in the institu- tional model of the university elaborated in Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century no provision was made, no space allocated...
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differences (1989) 1 (2): 105–123.
Published: 01 July 1989
... Romantic Novel .” PMLA 104 ( 1988 ): 141 - 51 . LESLIE RABINE Essentialism and Its Contexts: Saint-Simonian and Post-Structuralist Feminists A historical affiliation between the Saint-Simonian feminists of the 1830s and French post-structuralist feminists links two groups of sexual radicals who...
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 62–100.
Published: 01 September 2014
.... 1 . 1966 . 281 – 391 . Fuss Diana . Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature, and Difference . New York : Routledge , 1989 . Genet Jean . Funeral Rites . 1953 . Trans. Frechtman Bernard . New York : Grove , 1969 . Gillespie Sam . “ Neighborhood of Infinity...
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Tech increases social inequality, how algorithms are racist, and how math is a weapon. Do algorithms discriminate along gendered lines? Do mathematical systems harbor an essential bias? This essay shows that mathematics has long been defined through an elemental gendering, that within such typing...
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 21–28.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Arjun Appadurai Beginning from Weber’s claim that pursuit of capitalist profit developed out of the uncertainty of Calvinists about their salvational status, this article argues that the horizon of salvation remains essential to the apparatus of finance today. Often characterized as the zenith...
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 94–121.
Published: 01 September 2021
... be promised for promises to be. Thus, what on the surface seems mutually exclusive turns out essentially entangled: promising premised on oblivion. In a coda invoking Heidegger and Blanchot, the structure of language itself is revealed to be promissory—and, as such, forgetful. As often with Blanchot...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 250–278.
Published: 01 December 2009
... (think Katrina, the Patriot Act, Wall Street) as a civil or civilian war within the United States that is everywhere present but is hardly recognizable as such. In addressing one essential area of governmentality—demographics—the author makes the case for a change in liberal governmental reason...
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differences (2017) 28 (3): 136–165.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of orthodox economics. It is an economy where money is an obscene object, disrupting the very possibility of equivalence on which orthodox economics is based. This peculiar conceptualization of money is essential for understanding the historical specificity of capitalism. Applying it to the recurring cultural...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 172–228.
Published: 01 May 2011
... class and ethnic groups in Turkey, tending to focus attention, rather, on an essentialized “Kurdish” or “Eastern” culture as the main dynamic behind honor crimes. Blame for the practice is attributed to the intractable customs of backward peoples, customs that are disconnected from discussions...
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differences (2016) 27 (1): 189–205.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Anne Fausto-Sterling This dialogue between Anne Fausto-Sterling and Priscille Touraille revisits some of the essential issues in the confrontation between the different disciplinary epistemologies of gender studies and biology. Basing their conversation on the work developed by Fausto-Sterling...
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differences (2016) 27 (2): 125–152.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Delphine Gardey This essay is an attempt to revisit feminism through the issue of hospitality. What if hospitality were essential to the idea of feminism? How might this potentiality be put to work and made productive? Dealing with questions of language and territory, of the intimate and the enemy...
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differences (2016) 27 (2): 178–197.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Éric Fassin In transatlantic sex wars, gender is supposedly alien to French culture, as if it were essentially American. This nationalist cliché can be turned upside down if one takes language seriously. Gender is not only, but it is also, a grammatical term, especially in French. It is omnipresent...
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 28–58.
Published: 01 December 2008
... with others, and that is essential to one's life. The paper also argues that this belonging is corporeal, lived, and that it engenders and transforms sociopolitical meaning. On the basis of this model of community, the harm of racism and sexism lies not in the effects of categorization and objectification...
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 126–138.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Mary Beth Mader This commentary opens with an exposition of Alison Stone's novel reading of Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference. This reading proposes that Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference is a realist essentialism that reposes upon a general ontology of natural rhythm whose...
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differences (2012) 23 (1): 101–130.
Published: 01 May 2012
... successfully than heterosexual reproduction. In response, queer communities increasingly claim that homosexuality is immutable and essential, citing scientists’ theories of biological determinism to support the more colloquial notion that they are born gay. Many such theories, however, share the evolutionary...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 165–174.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of willing ourselves “to be less than who we are.” What does it mean to be “uncontaminated by a psychology of desire” and “unaccompanied by an essentially doomed and generally anguished interrogation of the other’s desire”? There can be no single answer to that ethically consequential question, which...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 198–219.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of hysteria; the third turns to the procedure of the Pass that for Lacan guarantees the production of the analyst, arguing that this procedure is essential precisely because it confirms the opening to the human that is the logical conclusion of an analytic cure. When I had the opportunity sometime later...
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 74–96.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Candace Moore In conversation with Silvan Tomkins, William James, Sianne Ngai, and others, “Piqued: Compounded Interest and the Intersubjective Scene” further theorizes one of the most taken-for-granted of the classic affects: interest. This essay argues that the piquing of interest is essential...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 157–183.
Published: 01 September 2024
.../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...
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