From Sex Objects to Sexual Subjects (Thinking Gender) [Paperback]

Claudia Moscovici (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415918111 | ISBN-13: 978-0415918114 | Publication Date: December 5, 1996 | Edition: 1

From Sex Objects to Sexual Subjects traces some of the ruptures and continuities between the eighteenth-century masculinist formulations of subjectivity elaborated by Rousseau, Diderot and Kant and the contemporary postmodern and feminist critiques of the universal subject--meaning the self viewed as an abstract individual who exercises an impartial and rational (political) judgment that is idential to other similarly defined individuals--developed by Luce Irigaray, Francois Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas, Nancy Fraser, Judith Butler and Michel Foucault.

In her work, Moscovici brings together the wide-ranging discussion of subjectivity with debates about public discourse. In so doing she attempts a synthesis between the two discussions that have recently engaged feminist theorists and others.

Editorial Reviews

Review

There are no spare words in this refreshingly clear study of the subject engendered, as citizen, and as female identity in her socio-political interrelationships. While the weight of postmodernism and gender studies underpin the analysis, making prior knowledge of the arguments against which Claudia Moscovici is working desirable, the book will none the less clarify the complexities of debates that are deconstruction's legacy. Not least of these is the problem of the abolutization of differences that makes all differences relativized... Such an agenda cannot but provoke debate and, for feminist scholarship, is an important brief for the next decade.
–Mary Orr, Modern Language Review

About the Author

Claudia Moscovici is in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 108 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (December 5, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415918111
• ISBN-13: 978-0415918114
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,665,197 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Claudia Moscovici is the author of "Velvet Totalitarianism," a critically acclaimed novel about a Romanian family's survival in an oppressive communist regime due to the strength of their love. This novel has been republished in translation in her native country, under the title "Intre Doua Lumi" (Curtea Veche Publishing, 2011, see book trailers below).

http://www.youtube.com/user/ClaudiaMoscovici?feature=mhee#p/a/f/0/KURICuT8TcA

http://www.youtube.com/user/ClaudiaMoscovici?feature=mhee#p/a/f/1/DgCdLdygaII

In 2002, she co-founded with Mexican sculptor Leonardo Pereznieto the international aesthetic movement postromanticism.com, devoted to celebrating beauty, passion and sensuality in contemporary art. She published a book on Romanticism and its postromantic survival called "Romanticism and Postromanticism," (Lexington Books, 2007).
She recently finished two books on psychopathic seduction and dangerous relationships: a nonfiction book called "Dangerous Liaisons: How to Recognize and Escape from Psychopathic Seduction" and a novel called "The Seducer".
This novel is a tragic love story about a woman who falls into the clutches of a dangerous, psychopathic lover.
You can preview sample chapters of "The Seducer" on Neatorama's Bitlit, by cutting and pasting the link below:

http://www.neatorama.com/bitlit/category/the-seducer/

You can also watch a video preview of the novel on youtube, by cutting and pasting the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ClaudiaMoscovici