CONTENTS	5
	SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE	7
	ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	11
	ABBREVIATIONS	13
	DIALECTIC	17
	INFLUENCES	19
	TEXTUALLY QUEER	21
	BUTLER’S INFLUENCES AND IDEAS	21
	PERFORMATIVITY	23
	THE DEATH OF THE SUBJECT?	25
	THE POLITICS OF STYLE	26
	AGAINST DEFINITION	28
	CONTEXT	33
	WHY BUTLER?	15
	DIALECTIC	17
	INFLUENCES	19
	TEXTUALLY QUEER	21
	PERFORMATIVITY	23
	THE DEATH OF THE SUBJECT?	25
	THE POLITICS OF STYLE	26
	AGAINST DEFINITION	28
	KEY IDEAS	31
	1 THE SUBJECT	33
	CONTEXT	33
	KEY STRANDS OF CRITICAL THOUGHT	34
	HEGEL’S UNHAPPY HERO	36
	DESTINATION DESIRE	38
	HEGEL: SOME KEY TERMS	38
	SELF AND OTHER	40
	LORDSHIP AND BONDAGE	41
	BROKEN SPIRITS	43
	BEYOND DIALECTIC	44
	STRUCTURALISM AND POST-STRUCTURALISM	45
	KOJÈVE, HYPPOLITE AND SARTRE	45
	DIFFÉRANCE AND PROLIFERATION	49
	LOVE, LACK AND LANGUAGE	51
	FORWARDS INTO HISTORY	53
	SUMMARY	55
	2 GENDER	57
	FROM PHENOMENOLOGY TO ‘ FEMININITY’	57
	(WHERE) IS THERE A SUBJECT IN THIS TEXT?	58
	‘ WOMAN’ AS A TERM IN PROCESS	59
	DISCOURSE	61
	GENDER GENEALOGIES	62
	SEX IS GENDER	63
	OUT OF THE CLOSET	64
	FOUNDATIONALIST FICTIONS	65
	MOURNING AND MELANCHOLIA	66
	FREUD: USEFUL TERMS	67
	MELANCHOLIC HETEROSEXUALITY	68
	INCORPORATION	70
	MELANCHOLY GENDER	72
	PROLIFERATION AS POWER	73
	BODIES IN THEORY	74
	PERFORMATIVITY	76
	SURFACE/ DEPTH	78
	PARODY AND DRAG	79
	THE TROUBLE WITH GENDER TROUBLE	82
	SUMMARY	84
	3 SEX	87
	THE MATTER OF MATTER	87
	THE BODY AND DISCOURSE	88
	THE BOOK	89
	INTERPELLATION AND THE ASSUMPTION OF SEX	91
	DISCOURSE AND SIGNIFICATION	94
	CONSTRUCTIVISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS	95
	FREUD, LACAN AND THE LESBIAN PHALLUS	96
	‘ BEING’ AND ‘ HAVING’ THE PHALLUS	99
	WIELDING THE LESBIAN PHALLUS	101
	PERFORMATIVE BODIES	102
	CITATIONAL SIGNS	104
	THE MATTER OF RACE	106
	QUEER TROUBLE	109
	SUMMARY	112
	4 LANGUAGE	113
	ISSUES	113
	WORDS THAT WOUND, WORDS THAT BIND	114
	THE LAW	117
	INTERPELLATION REVISITED	119
	VIOLENCE IN COURT	121
	MILITARY MELANCHOLIA	124
	AGAINST CENSORSHIP	126
	CONCLUDING QUESTIONS	129
	SUMMARY	130
	5 THE PSYCHE	133
	CONTEXTS	133
	POWER AND THE PSYCHE	134
	UNHAPPY CONSCIOUSNESS	135
	AFTER HEGEL	136
	IN LOVE WITH THE LAW	137
	FOUCAULT’S PRISONERS	140
	REVERSE INTERPELLATION	142
	MELANCHOLY GENDER REVISITED	145
	AFFIRMATIVE MELANCHOLIA	147
	SUMMARY	149
	AFTER BUTLER	151
	WHAT’S LEFT OF BUTLER?	152
	INFLUENCE	154
	THE SUBJECT/ GENDER	156
	THE BODY	157
	LANGUAGE	159
	POLITICS	161
	LITERATURE	164
	DYNAMIC CONCLUSIONS	165
	FURTHER READING	167
	WORKS BY JUDITH BUTLER	167
	‘ ESSENTIAL’ THEORETICAL READING	173
	WORKS CITED	177
	INDEX	183