Table of Contents
The Pretexts
of the Title
The
Play of Intertextualities: The Figure of the (My)nefield
Tactics of the First Tacky "Step" Taken: My two (I)(i)'s
Lacan's "Formulae of Sexuation": woman as the Sinthome of Man-
or "Woman Does not Exist"
Feminine Non-universal Logic
Standing on the Bridge over the Crack or S(p)(l)ace in the Mirror
And now...Écriture Masculine, Écriture Homosexuelle...you
don't say!
M(asking) Myself
Impossible Positionality
Autobiographical Confessional Vignettes
Feminism or pheminism - perhaps Fe(man)ism?
The Text Scriptease
in Eight Tacky Steps
THE FIRST VIGNETTE
Castration Anxieties
LIBERALIST FEMINIST ARTISTIC FORMATIONS
The
"High" Response
Liberalist Follies
Women and Crafts
The "Low" Response
Psychoanalytically Framing the High & Low Arts
THE SECOND VIGNETTE: MY BRUSHES WITH COLLEGE ART
The
Question of Essentialism
The Voyeur Drops "in"
Essentialist Religiosity
Spiritual Materialism
THE FRENCH "CON"-NECTION
Écriture féminine-writing the body
What then is écriture féminine?
The Hetero/Homo Matrix of Écriture Féminine
Luce Irigaray: The Undutiful Daughter
Julia Kristeva: The Dutiful Mother
Hélène Cixous: The Hysterical Daughter
Monique Wittig: I'm not your Daughter!
GIVE ME A LITTLE SIGN
but
make it Intelligibel....if you can?
Can You Fuck with Sex? The Antinomies of the Transgendered Body
Lacan with Baudrillard: Simulations of Sex or Simulating Sex- What's the
Difference?
Art in the Wake of Poststructuralism
Kelly is to the Phallic Child as Jo Spence is to Her own Shit
THE MASCULINE DESIRE OF THE IMAGINARY
Are
Males Simply Desiring Machines?
Le Viol/Le Voile: In Search of Magritte's Desire
Defending Magritte
Magritte's Deconstructive Moves
Gazing Traditionally
Masculine Desire Modified
Vermeer meets Silverman on a Fassbinder Set with Lacan Looking On
The Perverted Gaze of the Possessed Eye/I
The Male Gaze: Alive and Well, But Living in Horror
THE FEMALE GAZE AND ITS VICISSITUDES
Woman
as the Copula of Desire
The Varieties of the Female Gaze
Visual Technologies and the Female Gaze
After the fort /da Game:
The Danger of a "Simulacred" Perverted Gaze
CONUNDRUMS OF THE GAZE
Tripping over Medusa's Head
The Disputes of Representation: Gauguin, Salle, Picasso...and so on, and
so on...
Fucking Marilyn Over...and Over...after 1962: The Necrophilic Practices
of Psychiatry
The Proleptic Installations of the Exotic Gaze
Gentrified Tourism: I like you...I mean, I like your money!
Optical Tactility: The "Nervous Gaze"
THE THIRD VIGNETTE
The
Unhappy Marriage of Marxism & Feminism
Its Splendor No Longer Glitters
Materialist Feminist Collaborations
THE FOURTH VIGNETTE
Radical Alterity and Identity Politics
My Backyard
Slippery Signifiers of Race: The Case of /Black/
The Aporial Limit of Imperialism; Thinking About the First Nations
The Machinations of the Pluri-cultural Gaze
More Complications: The Ranking of Oppression!
THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY
Art
in An Age of Identity Crisis: Between Essentialism and Constructivism
The New Globalism
The Uses of Difference: Essentialist Tactics
Gains and Losses of Essentialist Tactics
Postmodern Racism
Pastiche Multiculturalism
Anti-essentialism and Hybridity
THE FIFTH VIGNETTE
Splitting Ourselves Apart:The Constradictions of the Pornographic
Body
Pornography as Art's Other: The Domestication of 'Smut'
TRUE CONFESSIONS OF A HARLEQUIN SOFT PORN EATER:
Or,
What's a Heterosexual to do?
Hysterical jitters: School days, School days
Soft Core/Hard Core
My Undergarmet 'Thing': What Level is this?
THE PORNOGRAPHY DEBATES
Violence/Rape
Roped Tight: The Contradictions of Maculinity
S/M
The
Lesbian Bar as the Dildoed Body
Identity Problems: the Sex Wars
Some Pornographic Conclussions: Sex in an Age of an Epidemic
GENDER B(L)ENDING AND THE POLITICS OF THE SCULPTURED BODY
Foucault and the History of Sexuality
Michel Foucault and His Retractors
Sculpting the Body
Whose Dress is it Anyway? Madonna is to Michael Jackson as Pornography
is to Childhood
Back To Orlan
THE SIXTH VIGNETTE
Deconstructive Contortions
Deleuze and Guattari's Postmodern Desiring Machines
THE SEVENTH VIGNETTE
The
Find de Millénium and the End of Ends
The End of Avant-garde Feminism and The Problems of Postmodernism
The Direction of Popular Culture
Further limitations: The Two Jocks/Jacques
Some More Doubts, Poststructuralism Revisited
Shoo-ing/Shoeing Out the "Ladies" Man
The 'High' Art of Cindy Sherman and 'Low' Art of Madonna: The Material
Girl Meets the Affirmative Woman
HONEY | SHRANK ...!
Male
Hysteria
Hypermasculinity: The Penile Body "Pump" or, It's Not Just in the Shoes
Queering
Freak Shows: Making Bev Francis "Figure"
The Mutant is Not the Cyborg and It's not Crying
The Tears of the softened Male: General Schwarzkopf Cries with Robert
Bly On the Planes/Plains of Television Land
Masculinity on Parade: A Review of the Jitters
THE EIGHT VIGNETTE
The
Last Garment
The Body in Question
Performative Non-discursivity: Lacan with a Post-Kantian Twist
Melancholic Drag and Masculine Balls
Gentrified Anti-homophobia?
THE GRAND FAILURE? 1989-1990
APPENDIX
The
Dilemma of Discipline: Schooling and Resistance
Discipline/Disciple; The Choreography of the punished body reading foucault
through the voice of our son Jeremy
Other voices
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Voices Cited/Sighted/Sited and Summoned
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