Questioning Sexuality

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From Psychoanalysis to Gender Theory and Beyond

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Av Gavin Rae, Spain) Rae, Gavin (Associate Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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Western thinking on sexuality has historically affirmed not only a binary division between two sexes, each of which is defined by unique fixed attributes that delineate its essence, but also a privileging of the masculine over the feminine and heteronormative relations over alternatives. By engaging with psychoanalytic theory, phenomenology, feminist and gender theory, and the new materialisms, Gavin Rae shows how this model came under sustained and heterogeneous attack in the twentieth century. Rather than affirm one of these critical trajectories, Rae rethinks the problematic by turning to Walter Benjamin’s notion of concepts as constellations to develop an alternative model called sexuality as constellation.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-02-28
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399535106

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Gavin Rae is Associate Professor (Accredited to Professor) in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. His research interests lie in nineteenth and twentieth century European philosophy, where he works at the intersection of socio-political philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, ontology, and ethics. Besides over sixty published articles and book chapters, he has published seven monographs, most recently Questioning Sexuality: From Psychoanalysis to Gender Theory and Beyond (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) and Poststructuralist Agency: The Subject in Twentieth-Century Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), and co-edited seven volumes, the most recent of which are Transformation in Contemporary French Theory (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming—with Emma Ingala and Cillian Ó Fathaigh), Critique and Political Reason: Exploring Critical Theory (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming—with Emma Ingala and Cillian Ó Fathaigh), Philosophy across Borders (Routledge, 2025—with Emma Ingala), and Subjective Agency and Poststructuralism (Routledge, 2025—with Cillian Ó Fathaigh).

PrefaceIntroduction: The Problem of Sex(uality)Part I: Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology1. Freud on Sexuality and the Feminine2. Heidegger, Fundamental Ontology, and Sexuality3. Merleau-Ponty on the Sexed BodyPart II: Feminism and (Post)structuralism4. Beauvoir on the Question of "Woman"5. Lacan, the Symbolic Phallus, and Sexual Difference6. Irigaray on Sexual Difference: Jamming the Patriarchal MachinePart II: Gender Theory and Queer Materialities7. Butler and Performativity: Thinking Sex through Gender 8. Barad, Agential Realism, and Queer TheoryConclusion: Sexuality as ConstellationBibliographyIndex

An innovative, refreshingly nuanced interdisciplinary consideration of sexuality’s philosophical chronicling. Rae’s Questioning Sexuality deftly weaves and delimits psychoanalytic, phenomenological, feminist, and queer approaches to entrenched notions of sexuality, brilliantly reframing sexuality as an indeterminate conceptual nexus illuminating the complexity of identity, politics, ethics, and being itself.