Modernity, 178 – 180, 230 – 231, 247 – 248
Money, John, 59 – 64, 66 – 67, 72, 79
Moraga, Cherríe, 209
Moten, Fred, 103
Mourning, 18 – 19
N
National Association of Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, 78 – 79
National identity, 122, 124 – 125
National Socialism, 223 – 225
Negation, 133 – 134, 140, 145 – 147
Nehamas, Alexander, 246
“New Gender Politics,” 4 – 12, 28
Nicholson, Linda, 246
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 169, 193, 238
Nomadology, 193
Norms, 1 – 4, 8, 15, 31, 36, 41 – 56, 69 – 70, 72, 95, 206 – 207, 217 – 222, 225 – 226, 231, 253
O
Oedipal complex, 43, 119 – 121, 127 – 128, 134 – 138, 152, 169, 200 – 211
Ontology, 214 – 215
P
Pacts of Civil Solidarity (PACS), 110, 112, 117, 125
Paris is Burning, 216
Pastoral power, 161 – 164
Patterson, Orlando, 247
Peirce, Kimberley, 258
Pela, Robert, 254
Performativity, 198 – 199, 209, 218
Personhood, 1 – 2, 32 – 33, 56, 58, 71 – 74
Phallus, 135 – 137, 138, 140
Philosophy, 232 – 250
Pontalis, J.-B., 252
Poovey, Mary, 50
Psychoanalysis, 14 – 15, 164 – 165, 171 – 173
R
Rabinow, Paul, 244
Race, 2, 13, 38, 122, 125, 175, 178, 248, 259n11, 259
Rachlin, Katherine, 254
Racism, 122, 201 – 202, 216, 224 – 225
Raissiguier, Catherine 256
Reality, 27, 214 – 215, 217 – 219
Recognition, 2 – 4, 31-32, 111, 113, 131 – 137, 140, 144 – 151, 240 – 241
Regulation, gender, 15 – 16, 40 – 41, 43 – 44, 48, 52 – 56
Reimer, David, 59 – 62, 65 – 74
Rekers, George, 89 – 90
Repressive hypothesis, 162 – 163
Resignification, 223 – 224
Riley, Denise, 209
Rodriguez, Oscar, 187
Rorty, Richard, 246
Rosario, Vernon, 253
Rose, Jacqueline, 117, 129
Rubin, Gayle, 45, 253
S
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 195, 208, 252
Scheler, Max, 239
Schneider, David, 103, 121, 123
Scholem, G., 202
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 237 272 IndexSchor, Naomi, 185
Scott, Joan W., 253
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 138, 199, 253
Segal, Hanna, 129
Seneca, 162
September 11, 2001, 22
Sex reassignment, 4 – 6, 53, 55, 59 – 66, 70 – 71, 75 – 76, 80, 83 – 93, 98, 100, 253
Sexual difference, 9 – 10, 176 – 178, 181, 185 – 186, 192 – 194, 196 – 197, 203, 207 – 213
Sexual exchange, 121 – 123, 138 – 139, 140, 208
Sexual harassment, 53 – 56, 175
Sexuality, 15 – 16, 53 – 54, 176
Shephard, Mathew, 6
Shepherdson, Charles, 210
Sigmundsen, Keith, 66 – 68, 253
Slavery, 247 – 248, 249 – 250
Smart, Carol, 252
Social construction of gender, theory of, 62 – 67
Social transformation, 204 – 205, 212 – 213, 222 – 223, 227 – 228
Sophocles, 166 – 171
Sovereignty, 166 – 168
Spinoza, 31, 51, 193, 198, 235 – 237
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 228 – 230
Stacey, Judith, 121
Stack, Carol, 103, 121
Strathern, Marilyn, 121
Structuralism, 45 – 46
Subject, category of, 227 – 230
Symbolic, the, 43 – 48, 118, 120, 127 – 129, 138, 211 – 212
T
Taylor, Charles, 252
Technology, 10 – 11, 12 – 13, 192 – 193
Teena, Brandon, 6, 142 – 144
Transautonomy, 76 – 77
Transference, 171 – 173
Transgender, 4, 6, 9, 28 – 29, 43, 80 – 81, 84 – 85, 92 – 101, 134, 142 – 144, 218, 253
Translation, 38, 228 – 229
Transsexuality, 4 – 6, 8 – 10, 28 – 29, 64 – 66, 71, 76 – 101, 142
Trauma, 153 – 156, 159
Trumbach, Randolph, 252
Tyler, Carol Anne, 210
U
United Nations Meeting on the Status of Women in Beijing, 181 – 184, 187 – 190
V
Vatican, the, 181 – 187, 189 – 190
Violence, 6, 9, 18, 24, 28-39, 49, 53, 55, 99, 118, 206 – 207, 214 – 221, 225 – 226, 230 – 231
Vitale, A., 254
Vitruvius, 253
Vulnerability, 22, 24, 231
W
Warner, Michael, 115, 256
West, Cornel, 245
Weston, Kath, 103, 121
Wilchins, Riki, 65
Wittig, Monique, 207
Wynter, Sylvia, 13
Y
Yanagisako, Sylvia, 121
Young, Iris Marion, 246
Z
ˇZiˇzek, Slavoj, 210
Table of Contents
Introduction: Acting in Concert
1. Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy
3. Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Reassignment and Allegories of Transsexuality
5. Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual?
7. Quandaries of the Incest Taboo
9. The End of Sexual Difference?
10. The Question of Social Transformation