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

INDEX 177
L
Labyrinth, ix, xiii–xxix, 63
Lacan, Jacques, xv–xvi, xix–xxi, xxx–2,
4–10, 12–14, 16, 19, 26, 39, 42, 48,
54–55, 58, 64, 71, 80, 82, 86, 88–117, 127–
131, 134–136, 141–142, 146
Language, xviii, 1, 4, 14, 16, 32, 39–40,
43–44, 51–55, 58, 60, 67, 72–79, 86, 88,
92, 94, 97–98, 101, 104, 106–109,
111–112, 116, 117, 123, 124, 129, 134,
136
Leclerc, Annie, 15, 37
Lesbian sexuality, 67, 109–110, 143
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 1–4, 13–14, 21–32,
37–37, 39, 42, 50, 55, 62, 72, 80, 90, 92,
104, 116, 124–127, 134–136, 146
Liberation, women’s, xxiii, 18, 109–110,
113, 143–144
Linguistics, xv, xxi, 4, 6, 39–40, 51, 53, 55,
94, 107
Logocentrism, 138
Lorde, Audre, xv, 141
Love
Irigaray and, 88, 100, 102, 105–109, 112
Lyotard, Jean-François, xi, 7–12, 96,
121–122, 124
M
Maat, 80, 123
Macciocchi, Maria-Antonietta, 1–2, 97–98
Maenads, 64, 66–67, 121, 138
Madness, xiii, 2, 16, 51, 66, 68, 75–80, 96,
138
Marxism, xxiv–xxv, 1–4, 10, 24, 26–30,
32–33, 38–39, 41, 45, 53, 55–55, 59, 74,
86, 128, 129, 131, 134, 141–143
Masculinity, violence of, 19, 44, 86, 98, 131,
132
Mask, woman as, 63–66, 83, 127
Materialism, 16, 23, 26–27, 131, 134–136,
141, 144
Maternal, xix, 25, 37, 101–102, 105, 108,
123, 124, 127, 131–132, 134, 140, 145
Matricide, xix, 132–136
Meese, Elizabeth, xxiii, xxvi–xxviii
Melancholia, xvi, 16
Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective, The,
xxvi 18
Millett, Kate, 15–17, 35, 47, 92, 114–115
Mimesis, xv, 86
Misogyny, ix, xix, xxv, xxviii, 15–16, 60–61,
85, 86, 95, 115, 131, 138, 142
Modernity, 10, 16, 53
Morgan, Robin, xviii
Mother, 25, 33, 37, 54, 55–57, 63, 64, 66, 67,
71, 82, 85, 94, 106, 108, 115–116, 123,
124–127, 128, 134, 138, 140, 145
mother-daughter relations, xix, xxviii,
101, 105, 107, 114, 131–132, 134
feminist theory and motherhood, 24, 26,
134
Becoming-Mother in male-stream
thought, xvii, xxi, 16, 83, 127
Murder
of women, xix, 1–3, 15–16, 19, 70–71,
86–86, 111, 127–127, 131–132, 134,
140, 146
N
Narcissism, xvi, 18, 20, 83, 86, 97, 117, 136,
142
Nazism, xxviii, 33, 35, 58
Neutrality, xxv, 33, 51, 55, 70–86, 95, 100
Nicholson, Linda, xxiv–xxv, 10
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 4, 10, 13–14, 20,
31–32, 37–38, 45, 53, 55, 58–69, 75,
80–86, 90, 92, 96, 98, 116, 119, 127–127,
132, 138, 146
Nothingness, 14, 21–37, 55, 62, 68, 75, 78,
98, 120–121, 124–127, 128, 132, 146
Nuclear
atomic power, 128
nuclear waste, 17
Nye, Andrea, xviii–xix
O
O’Brien, Mary, xix, xxv, xxx, 19, 24–25, 27,
37–37, 68, 80, 101, 115–116, 117, 124,
134, 134, 138, 141–144
Orestes, 132
Origin, 2, 55–55, 80, 106, 134, 141
Foucault and Derrida on Descartes, 75
Cixous and, 55
P
Patriarchy, xv, xvii–xix, xxiii, xxviii, 1–3,
18–20, 23, 27–27, 37, 49, 57, 60, 72, 74,
80, 113–114, 116–117, 119, 132–134,
138–146
and crisis, 12, 14, 124, 134–136
Pentheus, 138–140
Phallus, xv, xix, 1–2, 4, 13–16, 25, 48, 72,
80–82, 86, 90, 92–98, 111–112, 114–115,
117, 124, 127, 136, 140, 145–146
Phenomenology, 41, 53, 74, 90, 100–101
Piercy, Marge, xxix
Platonic dualism, 85
Plaza, Monique, 3, 44, 132, 142
Pluralism, 113, 115, 142–143
Poetry, 100, 110