Questioning Sexuality : From Psychoanalysis to Gender Theory and Beyond

Rae, Gavin

Edinburgh University Press（2026/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 320 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399535106

Full Description

Western thinking on sexuality has historically affirmed not only a binary division between two sexes, each of which is defined by unique fixed attributes that delineate its essence, but also a privileging of the masculine over the feminine and heteronormative relations over alternatives. By engaging with psychoanalytic theory, phenomenology, feminist and gender theory, and the new materialisms, Gavin Rae shows how this model came under sustained and heterogeneous attack in the twentieth century. Rather than affirm one of these critical trajectories, Rae rethinks the problematic by turning to Walter Benjamin's notion of concepts as constellations to develop an alternative model called sexuality as constellation.

Contents

Preface

Introduction: The Problem of Sex(uality)

Part I: Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology

1. Freud on Sexuality and the Feminine

2. Heidegger, Fundamental Ontology, and Sexuality

3. Merleau-Ponty on the Sexed Body

Part II: Feminism and (Post)structuralism

4. Beauvoir on the Question of "Woman"

5. Lacan, the Symbolic Phallus, and Sexual Difference

6. Irigaray on Sexual Difference: Jamming the Patriarchal Machine

Part II: Gender Theory and Queer Materialities

7. Butler and Performativity: Thinking Sex through Gender

8. Barad, Agential Realism, and Queer Theory

Conclusion: Sexuality as Constellation

Bibliography

Index