Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism

Index
A
Abelard, The Story of, 74, 145
Abyss, 55, 62–65, 69, 83, 86, 104, 129, 145
Agave, 95, 138–140
Alchemy, xvi, 32, 68, 71, 105, 127, 136, 140
Althusser, Louis, 1–4, 9, 27, 40–42, 45, 142
and murder of Hélène Rhythmann, 1–3
Amnesia, xviii, xix, 97, 140
Androcentricism, 45, 49
Anti-feminism, 45, 113
Antigone, 106, 111–112, 136
Aphasia, xviii, xix, 82, 97
Apollo, 9, 18, 136
Ariadne, ix, 63, 65–67, 140
Aristotle, xxiv, 58, 76, 83, 92, 100, 102, 127
Artemis, 140
Assault, 86, 132, 138
Authority, 86–86, 117, 131, 140
B
Bacchus, see Dionysus
Bachelard, Gaston, 27
Baudrillard, Jean, 8, 12, 15
Barry, Kathleen, xxv, 16, 81–82
Bartkowski, Frances, 86
Beckett, Samuel, 27, 37–37, 123, 136
Becoming-Woman, 49, 110, 145
in Derrida, 16, 71, 80, 82–83
in Deleuze, xvi
in Lacan, 16, 96
in Nietzsche, 58–69, 81
and transsexuality, 127
Benstock, Shari, xxviii
Bible, 52, 72, 92, 105, 117–119
Birth, 24–26, 37–37, 54, 57, 62–64, 67–69,
82–83, 88, 101, 108, 112, 117, 120, 123,
124–127, 131–134, 140–142, 145
Blaise, Suzanne, 144
Le rapt des origines ou le meurtre de la
mère, De
la communication entre lesfemmes,
xix–xix
Body, the, xxx, 10, 14, 49, 57–58, 67, 97,
120, 122–124, 141, 142–144, 146
De Beauvoir and, 57, 132–134
Irigaray and, 102–104, 107–109, 134
Foucault and, 57–58
Brennan, Theresa, Between Feminism and
Psychoanalysis, 114
C
Cathars, 57, 101, 119
Chthonic, 138
Christian, Barbara, xxii, 136
Cixous, Hélène, 12, 55, 85, 96, 109–111,
113, 144
Cogito, 41, 52
Descartes and, 14, 42
Derrida and Foucault debate, 75–80
Conception, 11, 67, 83
Creativity, 13, 27, 61–62, 109, 112,
117–119, 127–129, 132, 134
Feminist theory of, xvii, 86
Cybele, 140
D
Daly, Mary, xiii, xxv, 15, 136
Dardigna, Anne-Marie, xviii–xix, xxx, 16,
111, 127, 138
Das Ding, 90–92, 106, 108, 129, 136
Darwin, Charles, 29, 32, 54, 58
Death, 12–15, 18–19, 25, 27, 30, 32–33,
37–69, 72, 83, 86, 90–95, 98, 103, 105,
108–109, 111–112, 117, 124–131,
136–136, 140–141, 145
De Beauvoir, Simone, xv, xxx–1, 25, 57,
101, 104, 115, 132–136
Deconstruction, xxiii, xxvi–xxviii, 6–8, 27,
33–34, 48, 71–72, 74–75, 80–81, 86–86,
121–122, 143–144
Deleuze, Gilles, xv–xvi, 2, 55, 59, 96, 119
De Man, Paul, xxviii–xxix, 33–35
Demiurge, 54–55, 57, 120, 136
De Sade, Marquis, 16, 18, 20, 46, 58, 60, 90,
92, 96, 127–132, 134, 146
Descartes, Rene, xxv, 14, 37, 40, 42, 70, 72,
75–80, 86, 100, 103, 119, 145
Descombes, Vincent, 12, 17–18, 98
Desire, xix, 37, 47–48, 55–55, 60, 72, 85–86,
90–95, 97, 100, 102, 106, 112, 127–129,
136, 144 146–146
Difference, sexual, 24, 37, 43, 52, 96,
98–103, 106– 107, 109, 112, 116
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