...Elizabeth Grosz Copyright © 1994 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1994 ELIZABETH GROSZ The Labors of Love. Analyzing Perverse Desire: An Interrogation of Teresa de Lauretis's The Practice ofLove Beyond Phallic Desire he recent publication of Teresa...

...: Rutgers up, 2001 . ix -xiv. linda m. g. zerilli Refi guring Rights through the Political Practice of Sexual Difference It is more important to have authorita- of one’s being a woman...

... by elaborating on the framework of critical technical practice ( ctp ) first proposed by Philip Agre, suggesting how this notion might be connected productively with philosophical lineages of antipositivist epistemology, but as such traditions are reimagined and retooled for today’s informational contexts. Here...

... what has been violently erased from history and asks how this erasure is inscribed in new possibilities for writing, sexuality, and being in the world. In particular, the essay stresses two central characteristics of feminist aesthetic practice in modernity. First, it reinterprets the endlessly...

... . elizabeth grosz The Practice of Feminist Theory What dawns on philosophers last of all: are a wonderful dowry from some sort they must all no longer accept concepts of wonderland: but they are, after all, as a gift, nor merely purify...

... 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...

... . Pickering Andrew . The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science. Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1995 . Pickering Andrew . Science as Practice and Culture . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1992 . Rouse Joseph . Engaging Science: How to Understand Its Practices Philosophically...

...," and of erotic practice, sexual being, and gender. In order to further substantiate these points, we now turn to a discussion of the construction of sexual practices in northern Mexico. The sociocultural constructs described for northern Mexicans cannot simply be generalized to persons of Mexican origins...

..., truthfully. At the Greek inception of the politics-philosophy nexus, Foucault argues, psychagogy offered a tekhne for governing this conjoint truth practice and thereby affecting its decisions, even while remaining “nonpolitical.” By tracing some of Foucault’s ideas about the ways that truth, life, politics...

...Amy Tang There is perhaps no single formal practice more closely associated with contemporary culture than the repetition of images, styles, and forms from the past, and nowhere have these practices been more contentiously debated than in the cultural production of racial subjects. This essay...

...: following the death of the psychoanalytic subject, the aesthetic subject appears. This essay, however, returns to the scene of the sexual. It traces the path of sexual practices discussed by Bersani, from gay anal intercourse to rimming, finally introducing fisting as a sexual practice that deserves...

... measure to resist efforts to comprehend it. To begin to acknowledge the historical and material forms of the existence of violence is to confront the “tragic” dimension of the practice of politics. Just as this practice can never abandon itself to violence, so it can never altogether abandon violence...

...Lucie Cantin From the moment Freud first came up against repetition and the resistance of the symptom in his clinical practice and was thus forced to acknowledge a beyond of the pleasure principle that acts within the subject, the unconscious could no longer be conceived as a site...

...Pooja Rangan This essay critically examines humanitarian efforts to rehabilitate captive and working animals as producers of art—a practice recently and controversially popularized by viral videos of former draft elephants in Thai tourist camps painting self-portraits for sale. Positioning...

...Dong Limin This essay examines the ways a gender studies perspective has been applied in Chinese academic reflections on China’s socialist culture and practice during the so-called Seventeen-Year Period, which spanned from the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 to the beginning...

...Kimberly Juanita Brown This essay examines the iterations of patriarchy that seamlessly appear in heteronormative familial structures. Specifically, the paper illuminates the practice of patronymic naming—from surnames to name duplications (juniors) in the overarching framework of patriarchy...

... distancing history from the possibilities opened in its own past by the practice of historical reading and writing as critique. sylvia schafer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, where she teaches modern French and European history as well as the histories...

... and the practice of noise since this moment. In the first part, the focus is on Michel Chion’s writings that deal with noise—both conceptually and linguistically—across a variety of media (including theater, film, and music). Chion’s work is exemplary of a movement away from noise as paradigm-shifting...

... 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...

... the concomitant pleasure (and violence) bound with the broader cultural repetition of blackness as itself a mimetic practice. Race is an essential, if ambivalent, tool of the Not the Cosbys XXX ’s pornmimicry. Although Not the Cosbys XXX lead producer and writer, Mullen, does not explicitly mention blackness...