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33Contemporary French Feminism (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2004.Have we entered a historical moment of 'post-feminism'? This volume presents a timely and convincing 'no'. These essays demonstrate that there is a new generation of French women who take up questions of equality and difference from a position distinct from either first or second wave feminism, a position that often attempts to move beyond the binary of equality and/or difference to a new form of the individual.
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8Repetition to Working-ThroughIn Ann Cahill & Jennifer Hansen (eds.), The Continental Feminism Reader, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 168. 2003.
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50French FeminismIn Robert C. Solomon & David Sherman (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy, Blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: Simone de Beauvoir Luce Irigaray Colette Guillaumin Hélène Cixous Julia Kristeva Monique Wittig Sarah Kofman Michèle Le Doeuff Christine Delphy Conclusion.
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6Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2009.Considers the social and political significance of Kristeva’s oeuvre
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613Women: The secret weapon of modern warfare?Hypatia 23 (2). 2008.The images from wars in the Middle East that haunt us are those of young women killing and torturing. Their media circulated stories share a sense of shock. They have both galvanized and confounded debates over feminism and women's equality. And, as Oliver argues in this essay, they share, perhaps subliminally, the problematic notion of women as both offensive and defensive weapons of war, a notion that is symptomatic of fears of women's "mysterious" powers.
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25Kristeva's ReformationJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 22 (2): 20-25. 2014.In my brief remarks, I consider what it means to return and rebind—that is to say, the significance of the re for Kristeva’s thought. Kristeva does not just talk about binding or birth, or unbinding or death, but rather rebinding and rebirth, suggesting that it is a retrospective return rather than an original moment that is crucial. The most significant moment, then, is not the moment of imaginary plenitude, nor the moment of originary loss, but rather the moment of rebirth that comes through r…Read more
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22The Poetic Axis of EthicsDerrida Today 7 (2): 121-136. 2014.In The Poetic Axis of Ethics, Kelly Oliver argues that in Derrida's The Beast and the Sovereign Volume II, a line of poetry from Celan becomes the axis around which Derrida's analysis of world, death, and ethics revolves: ‘Die Welt ist fort, ich muß dich tragen’ [The world is far away, I must carry you]. Oliver maintains that the Celan fragment, which is repeated in nearly every session, is not only the axis around which Derrida binds the unlikely duo Robinson-Heidegger, but also it is a perform…Read more
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11Ethics, Politics, and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writing (edited book)Routledge. 1993.First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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68Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring MothersRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.In Subjectivity without Subjects, well-known philosopher and feminist theorist Kelly Oliver looks at aspects of popular culture, film, science, and law to examine contemporary notions of paternity and maternity. Oliver studies the roles of paternal responsibility, virility, and race in such events as the Million Man March and the Promise Keeper's movement and suggests alternative ways to conceive of self-other relations and the subjective identity at stake in them. In addition she offers a detai…Read more
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5BandagesJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 22 (2): 70-83. 2014.“The bandages signify death,” says Derrida, “the condemnation to death; when they fall away, out of use, undone, untied, untying, they signify, like a detached signifier, that the dead one is resuscitated." Like a detached signifier, indicating a metaphorical relationship between signification and the bandages. But, when we follow the metonymy of bandages in Derrida’s Death Penalty seminar volume one, the bandages appear as the figure for figuration itself. More specifically, they are a sign tha…Read more
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