Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern BodiesThinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary WestYearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural PoliticsGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Provincializing Europe. Postcolonial thought and historical difference

I am like the needy knife-grinder — I have no story to tell. — Maria Edgeworth I dwell in Possibility — A fairer House than Prose — More numerous of Windows — Superior — for Doors — Emily Dickinson ... the modes of fainting should be all as different as possible and may be made very diverting. — The Girls’ Book of Diversions (ca. (1840) From Sappho to myself, consider the fate of women. How unwomanly to discuss it! — Carolyn Kizer

The madwoman in the attic :the woman writer and thenineteenth-century literary imagination

Revolutions and Reconstructions in the Philosophy of Science

My Essay is a response to legal realism,' to its well-known arguments against \"rules of law.\" Legal realism, seeing itself as an empirical practice, was not convinced that there could be any set of rules, formalized on the grounds of logic, that would have a clear determinative power on the course of legal action or, more narrowly, on the outcome of litigated cases. The decisions made inside the courtroom-the mental processes of judges and juries-are supposedly guided by rules. Realists argued that they are actually guided by a combination of factors, some social and some idiosyncratic, harnessed to no set protocol. They are not subject to the generalizability and predictability that legal rules presuppose. That very presupposition, realists said, creates a gap, a vexing lack of correspondence, between the language of the law and the world it purports to describe. As a formal system, law operates as a propositional universe made up of highly technical terms--estoppel, surety, laches, due process, and others-accompanied by a set of rules governing their operation. Law is essentially definitional in this sense: It comes into being through the specialized meanings of words. The logical relations between these specialized meanings give it an internal order, a way to classify cases into actionable categories. These categories, because they are definitionally derived, are answerable only to their internal logic, not to the specific features of actual disputes. They capture those specific features only imperfectly, sometimes not at all. They are integral and unassailable, but hollowly so. In the emphatic words of Karl Llewellyn, \"Legal rules mean, of themselves, next to nothing. They are verbal formulae, partly conveying a wished-for direction and ideal. But they are, to law students, empty. '\"2 Felix Cohen was even more blunt. Jurisprudence, as the decisional rules

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Rules of Law, Laws of Science

Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival

War in Several Tongues

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Three Wars: Henry James and Others

O NE MOMENT THE STREET WAS QUIET AND DRIZZLY, SO FAMILIAR that I barely gave it a thought. he next moment the headlights were upon me, direct, blinding, a lood of illumination so incandescent and unexpected that what gripped me wasn’t fear but stupefaction. hen I was on the ground, screaming with a rage that took even myself by surprise: “No, I’m not OK! I’m not OK! I’m not OK!” A lot happened during the four weeks I spent at Spaulding Rehab.1 he Red Sox won the World Series. A record number of women and minority candidates were elected to Congress. Participating in these bonds of anticipation, suspense, and elation didn’t make me forget that I was wedded to my wheelchair, another kind of bond, never before contemplated and in many ways more interesting than the others. his unsightly contraption, a marvel of metallic suppleness, was never apart from me or out of my mind: not the new normal but simply part of life, taken for granted and integral to my sense of myself. Not being able to live without it deined me, an identity I got used to with surprising ease. he motto for Spaulding Rehab is “Find Your Strength,” a cleareyed, matteroffact injunction that I appreciated when I arrived, and even more so when I let, still needing an ambulance. For those of us living with the unpredictable course of the injured body, strength is not a given, not a fact in the present tense.2 Not securely lodged, it is rather an aspiredto outcome, the promise of a yettoberealized future. One has to work for it, try to ind it. What one inds varies greatly from one person to another. here is always the chance that the search will be in vain, that this aspiredto outcome will always remain aspiredto, beckoning from a place just beyond our reach. his uncertain future brings to mind the taunt popularized by disability activists: “temporarily abledbodied.”3 Most of us think 1 3 4 . 2 ]

Wai Chee Dimock

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Rules of Law, Laws of Science

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War in Several Tongues

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