...Lisa Disch This essay revisits the work of Christine Delphy, a leading activist in the women's liberation movement in France and a leading materialist feminist theorist whom many US feminist scholars have written off as a “seventies feminist”: she not only published one of her most-read pieces...

...Christine Delphy This text, which is translated here for the first time in English, is taken from the “Preface” to The Main Enemy, Volume Two: Thinking Gender (2001). It is a companion piece to the 1993 essay “Rethinking Sex and Gender” (first published in French in 1991). © 2015 Duke University...

...-Grace . 1974 . Amazon Odyssey: [Collection of Writings] . New York : Links Books . Barrett Michèle McIntosh Mary . 1979 . “Christine Delphy: Towards a Materialist Feminism?” Feminist Review , no. 1 : 95 – 106 . Bar On Bat-Ami . 1992 . “The Feminist Sexuality Debates...

... (Feminin Masculin Avenir), included Christine Delphy and Anne Zelinsky, among others.20 The Vincennes Group represented the differentialist position, while fma assumed the egalitarianist one. Such artists as Christiane Rochefort, Delphine Seyrig, and Rahel Mizrahi, who were themselves far from opposed...

.../politics. She is currently writing a book on political representation. She is the author of The Tyranny of the Two-Party System (2002). Christine Delphy is a sociologist and a leading activist and theorist of the women’s liberation movement in France. She was part of the original edito- rial...

... Labor and Social Security by Investing in the Chinese Stock Market  47 de Goede, Marieke, Speculative Values and Courtroom Contestations  355 Delphy, Christine, “Preface: Critique of Naturalizing Reason”  851 Dey, Ishita, and Giorgio Grappi, Beyond Zoning: India’s Corridors of “Development...

... depends upon the answer to a compelling question: How could an anima naturaliter Christiana seek to become, as Plutarch did be­ come, priest of the pagan religion of Delphi? St. Paul had com­ pleted his missionary journeys when Plutarch was an infant, and from Corinth to Macedonia Greece was Christianized...

... the division of a row of teeth. Of Philopcemen, called in praise the last of the Greeks, it is related that his person was not, as some fancy, deformed; for his likeness is yet to be seen at Delphi. Once at the height of his power, being mistaken for a nobody in his train, Philopcemen good-humoredly...

... is brilliantly vindicated in the glorious denouement. The author s concern for this minor and alien sect goes far beyond the romantic requirement of introducing an element of the exotic. The significance of the scene at Delphi, where Calasiris is accepted on terms of equality by the dignitaries of the cult...

... transplanted, bring forth the cultural bloom of its former habitat. The very scarcity of the Pupins proves as much. Who has not felt that he got a deeper grasp on the meaning of Hesiod s Works and Days after a sojourn in some sheperds hamlet near Delphi or in a fishing village by Syracuse? The round...

... deferred in the epic narratives, where home signifies an idealized locus ofpolitical and familial identity, but not without the ambivalence that necessarily attaches to such idealizations. While the plots ofAttic tragedy call for diverse locales (e.g., Delphi, Egypt, or Troy), tragic performances were...

... Parnassus above Delphi, or is facing the abyss of the Jungfrau at the Kleine Scheidegg. Absorbed in the counterpoint of a Brahms symphony, illuminated by the majesty and golden patina of the Parthenon, made a portion of the shadow, sheen and glow within St. Mark s, or lost in a vision of glory afforded...

... In 1992 the European Cultural Centre of Delphi recovered and reconstructed a first- century BCE hydraulis from the city of Dion. Hear it at Archaeology Channel 2016. 5 In 2015 I worked with the US State Department to create a soundtrack for President Barack Obama’s visit to Alaska...

... mandate that the oracle at Delphi gives to Diogenes: “Falsify the currency.” For a brief analysis of this injunction, see again my “Militant Life.” 11 On the distinction between biopower and biopolitics, see Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy...

... of departure the story of the Oracle of Delphi telling Diogenes of Sinope to falsify or change the currency, Hardt suggests that this can be understood as a project to create a new form of life and, hence, a new world. By “currency,” Hardt seems to be referring primarily to the processes...

.... According to one account told by Diogenes Laërtius, an ancient historian, Dioge­ nes of Sinope goes to the Oracle at Delphi to seek advice, and the Oracle instructs him to “Falsify the currency...

... the group around the feminist journal Questions feministes in­ vited Simone de Beauvoir to act as their director. Rejecting what they considered the cult of difference in, say, the Psych et Po collective, the women in this group, which at various times included Christine Delphy, Monique Plaza, Colette...

... personal unconscious and the cultural mythologies she conjured in her verse (TF, 44). In her famous 1920 account of her hallucinations at a hotel in Corfu, after having been turned back from Delphi, H.D. is visited by enigmatic, reversed-S hieroglyphs—grammatological question marks accompanying...

... percent were over 55 and only 21 percent had a paid job in addition to their caring role. 42 See Christine Delphy and Diana Leonard, Familiar Exploitation: A New Analysis of Marriage in Contemporary Western Societies (Cambridge, 1992), chap. 9, esp. 245-46. 43 See George Eliot, Middlemarch (Harmondsworth...

... of these developments, it is important to remember that currency can always be falsi†ed. Revisiting Michel Foucault’s discussion of the instruction of the Oracle at Delphi to “falsify the currency,” Michael Hardt (2012) takes this principle as a mandate for social transformation and the creation of a new life...