Contents // Preface (1999) vii // Preface (1990) xxix // 1 Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire ⢠i // / "Womenââ as the subject of feminism 2 // II The compulsory order of sex/gender/desire 8 // / / / Gender: the circular ruins of contemporary debate i ? // IV Theorizing the binary, the unitary, and beyond 18 // V Identity, sex, and the metaphysics of substance 22 // VI Language, power, and the strategies of // displacement 34 // 2 Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix 47 // / Structuralism’s critical exchange 52 // II Lacan, Riviere, and the strategies of masquerade 59 // III Freud and the melancholia of gender 78 // IV Gender complexity and the limits of identification 89 // VI CONTENTS // V Reformulating prohibition as power 97 // 3 Subversive Bodily Acts 107 // / The body politics of julia Kristeva 107 // II Foucault, Hercuiine, and the politics of sexual // discontinuity 127 // III Monique Wittig: bodily disintegration and // ficti ve sex 151 // IV Bodily inscriptions, performative subversions 175 // Conclusion: From Parody to Politics 194 // Notes 205 // Index 229