Table of contents:

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