Article: Relating to Queer Theory: Rereading Sexual Self-Definition with Irigaray, Kristeva, Wittig and Cixous.(Book Review)

Relating to Queer Theory: Rereading Sexual Self-Definition with Irigaray, Kristeva, Wittig and Cixous. By SARAH COOPER. Bern: Lang. 2000. 231 pp.

In an essay entitled 'Against Proper Objects', in a 1994 number of the journal differences, Judith Butler, the doyenne of contemporary queer theory, expresses disquiet at the territorializing impulse that has led some queer theorists to distinguish theories of sexuality from theories of gender, and to claim the investigation of sexuality as their own particular province, off limits to feminist analysts of gender. In short, she mounts a critique of separatist practices of scholarship that are, in essence, practices of ...

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