From: KEHEN1-AT-MFS06.CC.MONASH.EDU.AU
Date:          Wed, 3 Apr 1996 12:00:43 AEST-10
Subject:       Re: contexts for French feminism


> Date sent:      Mon, 01 Apr 1996 23:02:46 -0500
> From:           MDorenkamp-AT-aol.com
> Subject:        Re: contexts for French feminism
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> having said all of that, i want to thank catherine driscoll for the _saq_
> article recommendation -- i copied it at the library the other day and it
> looks like precisely the kind of thing i was looking for.  and thanks too to
> judith poxon for her recommendation, which i have yet to look up but which
> looks very promising.  and finally, to mary keller, for the grosz and oliver
> recommendations.  i shall look them up as well.  i don't really follow
> grosz's work but hasn't she recently made a move away from psychoanalytic
> theory toward more historical work?  or am i thinking of someone else?

Liz says that she attempted to move away from psychoanalytic accounts 
of sexual difference a couple of years ago (the most notable paper 
in this attempt is apparently "Refiguring Lesbian Desire" which can 
be found in her latest book of essays "Space Time and Perversion" as 
are some of her other moves (Towards Deleuze's work for example) 
however she has also said recently that she is moving back into 
psychoanalytic readings because she can find no other discourse 
which can account for sexual difference (despite all the problems 
it throws up).  but as she only said this in a recent seminar, please 
don't quote me on this!!!  I actually think that if you are 
interested in Liz's work (especially these sorts of movements "Space, 
Time and Perversion" is a good place to start - as a collection of 
her essays written over the last ten years it does show some of the 
developments in her thought - and is easier to get into that 
"Volatile Bodies" and is not as directly an explanation of others' 
thoughts as with "Sexual Subversions" and "Jacques Lacan". I still 
think that Grosz is one of the most lucid readers of French 
philosophy (for diummies like me!!!) that I have come accross.
Margaret
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thanks again 
to all who have responded and/or will respond. > > /monica dorenkamp
> grad student, rutgers university
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