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...LISA WALSH 2001 lisa walsh is Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Southwestern University. Her first book, Subjects of Love and Desire:Readings of Maternity and Ethicity , is forthcoming from Rowman &Littlefield. She is currently at work on a new book on paternity...

...Fiona Jenkins Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2007 fiona jenkins is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Australian National University. She teaches and researches on Nietzsche and post-Nietzschean ethics and political thought, on feminist...

... of abolishing the class system. Women's texts of nonrevolutionary socialism from across the global North-South divide, however, confront us with new figures and concepts for thinking unorganized resistance, everyday exigencies, and the shape of the ethical within globalization. This essay studies...

...LYNNE HUFFER 2001 lynne huffer is Professor of French Studies and Women and Gender Studies at Rice University. She is the author of Another Colette: The Question of Gendered Writing (University of Michigan Press, 1992) and Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics...

.... shu-mei shih Towards an Ethics of Transnational Encounter, or “When” Does a “Chinese” Woman Become a “Feminist”? To begin, two narratives: A Chinese woman who had rehearsed for the lead role in the model opera “Red Azalea” [Dujuan...

...). Agamben, Giorgio. “Absolute Immanence.” Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy . Trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford: Stanford up, 1999 : 220 -39. Badiou, Alain. Deleuze: The Clamor of Being . Trans. Louise Burchill. Minneapolis: u of Minnesota p, 1997 . ____. Ethics: An Essay...

... avital ronell Surrender and the Ethically Binding Signature: On Johnson’s Reparative Process On the Mat It was probably a coincidence, nothing more than the furtive meeting of two dissociated events. I...

...: Politics, Ethics, and Clairvoyance in the Work of Hannah Weiner In August of 1972, Hannah Weiner, an accomplished and highly politicized performance artist and poet, began to receive a remarkable form of “dictation.”1 Printed...

...Lee Edelman Engaging Lynne Huffer’s attempts to produce a queer feminist ethics based on Foucault’s notion of desubjectivation, this essay attends to the gap that such an ethics seeks to bridge: the gap between the unlivability that desubjectivation entails and the ethical investigation of how we...

... be maintained between the moral and the ethical. The failure to maintain this distinction has led to a mistaken repudiation of both the moral and the ethical. Rather than jettisoning both, Huffer argues that queer theory needs the ethical. Proposing potential elements for a queer ethics, she returns...

...Mikko Tuhkanen “Homomonadology” outlines the emergence and elaboration of Leo Bersani’s onto-ethics/aesthetics over the past half a century, focusing particularly on his interest in the shared references to Leibnizian metaphysics in twentieth-century philosophical and literary texts. The essay...

...Jennifer C. Nash “Pedagogies of Desire” explores how women’s studies—a field that has long engaged sex as a space steeped in power, hierarchy, and inequality—has come to invest in affirmative consent as the sexual ethic that can produce sex as a territory free of violence. This essay explores...

...Lynne Huffer What happens to ethical discourse when it begins by interrogating the givenness of the moral subject? This question lies at the heart of Butler’s ethics. The stakes of that question emerge most saliently in Butler’s reading of Foucault in Giving an Account of Oneself , where...

.... But despite the narrative’s symptomatic displacement of the protagonist’s wife (the mother of his child), and notwithstanding its desperate idealization of the father-child relationship, The Road nevertheless bears the traces of an ethical encounter with the other that resists humanist or paternalist...

... writings on Ovid, Heinz Kohut, and Nella Larsen, tracing the ways in which she articulates the relationship between literature and politics through narcissism as figure and reading practice that disrupts axiomatic conceptions of morality, finally reading narcissism as an “ethical” category in Johnson's...

... studies, intersectionality, and desubjectivation. The reflections are motivated by a desire to take seriously feminist theory’s antifoundationalist foundations in reapproaching the ethical rifts that have divided queer theorists from feminists. In place of a liberatory sexuality or a new materialist...

...Kyoo Lee “What does queer feminism bring to sexual thinking and practice today that is surprising and transformative?” Lynne Huffer asks in Are the Lips a Grave? This essay on queer fem(inist) “lipthink” seeks to elucidate how and where, in Huffer’s ethics of eros, the post-Cartesian-Foucaultian...

... theorizes queer metarelationality as a vernacular ethical practice that is vital to queer life. Reframing queer theory’s debates over the antisocial thesis, the essay argues that Giving an Account of Oneself offers valuable insight for contemporary debates over critique and postcritique, queer and trans...

...Megan Cole Paustian In Giving an Account of Oneself , Judith Butler asks how we justify our lives through narrative and what this means for ethical relations with others. This essay repositions Butler’s work in a humanitarian frame, foregrounding how moral commitments play out on a transatlantic...

...Jules Gill-Peterson This essay poses two critical questions about trans politics as elaborated in the Global North today: Who is the subject of gender self-determination? And what, precisely, is mobilized by tying political sovereignty to gendered persecution and ethical world-making, trans...