The thinking muse : feminism and modern French philosophy

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION Jo-Ann Pilardi Female Eroticism in the Works of Simone de Beauvoir Eleanor H. Kuykendall Simone de Beauvoir and Two Kinds of Ambivalence in Action Iris Marion Young Throwing Like a Girl A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality Jeffner Allen An Introduction to Patriarchal Existentialism A Proposal for a Way Out of Existential Patriarchy Judith Butler Sexual Ideology and Phenomenological Description A Feminist Critique of Merleau-PontyOs Phenomenology of Perception Julien S. Murphy The Look in Sartre and Rich Linda Kintz In-different Criticism The Deconstructive Parole Linda Singer True Confessions Cixous and Foucault on Sexuality and Power Domna C. Stanton Difference on Trial A Critique of the Maternal Metaphor in Cixous, Irigaray, and Kristeva Eleanor H. Kuykendall Questions for Julia KristevaOs Ethics of Linguistics Namascar Shaktini Displacing the Phallic Subject WittigOs Lesbian Writing CONTRIBUTORS INDEX