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

176 NOTHING MAT(T)ERS
Dionysus (Bacchus), 0 , xiii, 9, 12, 15, 18,
59, 62, 64–69, 72, 95, 104, 109, 111–112,
119, 121, 127, 136–140, 146
Diotima, 105
Discarnate desires, 86, 143
Divinity
language and, 53, 136
masculinity and, 18, 67, 92
femininity and, 101–105, 107
Dora, the Story of, 110–111
E
écriture féminine, 110–111
Electra, 132
Embodiment, see Body
Enslavement of Women, 61, 95, 132–134
Epistemology, xxi, xxv, 1–2, 4, 12, 14, 16,
18, 21, 24, 27, 31, 33, 37–37, 40, 43–44,
50–57, 74, 90, 127, 136, 145
Essentialism, xxi, xxiii, xxv, 21, 58, 81,
98–98, 136
Ethics, 16, 29, 31, 33, 37, 57–58, 88–117,
127, 131, 136, 146
Eros, 13, 19, 64, 95, 111–112, 127, 136–136,
140
Euripides, 64, 138
Existentialism, 1–2, 4, 12, 14, 26, 31, 37–37,
41, 74, 101, 121, 127, 132–134, 141
F
Family, xix, 101, 106, 114–116, 138, 144
Father, xvii–xix, xxviii, 13–14, 18, 24, 26,
66–67, 90–92, 100, 105–106, 112–116,
127, 134, 141
Fascism, 1, 33–37, 58
Feminine
philosophy and, 60, 63–66, 68, 71, 75,
81–83, 95, 101–102, 104, 106–107, 112,
138
see also Woman
Feminism, xxii, 16, 57, 59–60, 67, 81–82,
86, 141, 143–145
and French Philosophy, 15, 44–45,
48–49, 132, 134
and Postmodernism/poststructuralism,
0 , xxii–xxix, 8, 10, 18–20, 37, 58, 136,
141, 142, 146–146
and Psychoanalysis, xxi, 95, 98–98, 110,
112–117
and social change,
Fertility, 100, 104, 132, 136, 138
Flax, Jane, 0, xxiv, 10, 116
Foucault, Michel, 0 , xvii, xxv–xvii, 1–2,
4–10, 12–13, 17–18, 27, 32–33, 38–59,
86, 90–90, 98, 119, 124–127, 136, 141,
146
The Order of Things, 0, 39–40, 42–43,
50–51, 55, 127
The History of Sexuality, 45, 48
debate with Derrida on madness, 75–80
Freud, Sigmund, xiii–xix, 13–14, 21–25, 30,
68, 71, 90–95, 98, 106, 110, 113–116,
127, 128–129, 132, 134, 141
Frye, Marilyn, 143
Fucking, Lacan and, 19, 88
G
Gallop, Jane, xxviii, 82, 96–97, 113, 117
Genesis, 74, 83, 117, 124
Gnosticism, 16, 72, 119–121, 127
Godot, 9, 37–37
Gothic, 71, 111
Grosz, Elizabeth, xxi, 8, 114
H
Harari, Josué, 4–4
Hartsock, Nancy, xxiii, 24, 44–45
H.D., xiii–xv, 127
Hecate, 140
Heidegger, Martin, xxviii–xxix, 8, 33,
37–37, 39, 60, 73, 134
Heloise, 145
Heterosexuality, 24, 37, 44, 48, 85, 98, 109,
136
History, concepts of, 6, 10, 13–14, 26–29,
31–32, 37, 39, 42–43, 52–55, 58, 60,
77–78, 124, 129–131, 132–134, 136, 141,
144
hooks, bell, xviii, xxi, xxiii–xxiv
Hymen, 71, 80, 86
Hysteria, xvi–xvii, 15–16, 48, 96–97, 109,
117
I
Identity, concepts of, 15, 21, 34, 39, 51–52,
71, 83, 108, 138, 144
Les Immatériaux, ix, xi, 11, 119, 122–124,
145
Immortality, 14, 25, 57, 66, 104–105, 108,
144
Incest, xix, 13, 23–25, 48
Irigaray, Luce, xv, xix, xxviii, 24, 37,
88–117, 134–136, 143–146
J
Jameson, Fredric, 11–12
Jardine, Alice, xxiii, 96
Jehova, 73
K
Kristeva, Julia, xix, 4, 74, 95, 113, 132, 136