From Sex Objects to Sexual Subjects (Thinking Gender)

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From Sex Objects to Sexual Subjects traces some of the ruptures and continuities between the eighteenth-century masculinist formulations of subjectivity elaborated by Rousseau, Diderot and Kant and the contemporary postmodern and feminist critiques of the universal subject--meaning the self viewed as an abstract individual who exercises an impartial and rational (political) judgment that is idential to other similarly defined individuals--developed by Luce Irigaray, Francois Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas, Nancy Fraser, Judith Butler and Michel Foucault. In her work, Moscovici brings together the wide-ranging discussion of subjectivity with debates about public discourse. In so doing she attempts a synthesis between the two discussions that have recently engaged feminist theorists and others. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents INTRODUCTION one THE TROPE OF DISSIMULATION Constructing and Deconstructing Sexual and Political Economies during the French Enlightenment two SEXUAL SUBJECTS Luce Irigaray's Economy of Gendered íntersubjectivity three TURNING TOWARD THE UNIVERSRL A Feminist Critique of Habermas's Universalizability Principle four THE FIELD OF CULTURAL PRODUCTION A Second Glance at the Erotic, the Aesthetic, and the Social five JUSTICE, EQUALITY AND PROPORTIONAL GROUP REPRESENTATION The [Im]possible Future of Democracy? BIBLIOGRAPHY