Derrida and Feminism

Ellen K. Feder teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Vassar College.Mary C. Rawlinson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook.Emily Zakin teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Miami University.

• Introduction -- Ellen K. Feder, Mary C. Rawlinson, andEmily Zakin; 1. Jane Gallop -- "Women" in Spurs and Nineties Feminism; 2. Ellen K. Feder and Emily Zakin-- Flirting with the Truth: Derrida's Discourse with 'Woman' and Wenches; 3. Kelly Oliver -- The MaternalOperation: Circumscribing the Alliance; 4. Mary C.Rawlinson--Levers, Signatures, and Secrets: Derrida's Useof Woman; 5. Tina Chanter -- On Not Reading Derrida's Texts: Mistaking Hermeneutics, Misreading Sexual Difference, and Neutralizing Narration; 6. EwaPlonowska Ziarek -- From Euthanasia to the Other of Reason: Performativity and the Deconstruction of Sexual Difference; 7. John D. Caputo -- Dreaming of the Innumerable: Derrida, Drucilla Cornell, and the Dance of Gender; 8. Drucilla Cornell -- Where Love Begins: Sexual Difference and the Limit of the Masculine Symbolic.

"...Derrida and Feminism is an engaging collection of essays..." -- Dialogue"This is an interesting anthology that probes the intersection of feminism and deconstruction. Some of the most promising work to be found here is that of younger scholars who will most certainly remap the terrain of feminist theory." -- Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley"... excelent ... [T]he authors provide refreshingly engaged and deep readings of the role of woman in Derrida's texts ... Overall, Derrida and Feminism is an outstanding colection of essays because it provides analyses and criticisms from within deconstructive thinking ..., but goes beyond that thinking to open up new paths for feminist theorizing." -- TeachingPhilosophy