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The Passion of the Signifier and the Body in Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Robyn Ferrell
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Abstract

The paper argues that psychoanalysis and deconstruction offer more to feminist theory than contestation. The common feminist criticisms of the work of Lacan and Derrida are not as compelling as may be thought. Among the possibilities for feminist theory using psychoanalysis and deconstruction is the scrutiny of theory as theory—and this will inevitably include scrutinizing feminist theory itself.

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Hypatia , Volume 6 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Feminism and the Body , Fall 1991 , pp. 172 - 184
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Copyright © 1991 by Hypatia, Inc.

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