Julia Kristeva is a linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. This text provides a representative selection of her writings since the mid 1970s. The essays are arranged around major Kristevan themes: "The subject in Signifying Practice"; "Psychoanalysis of Love"; "Individual and National Identity"; and "Maternity, Feminism and Female Sexuality". They reflect her most salient contribution to the fields of philosophy, literary and cultural theory, linguistics, psychoanalytic theory and feminiist theory.
Kelly Oliver was born on July 28, 1958 in Spokane Washington. She graduated from Gonzaga University with honors in 1979 with a double major in philosophy and communications. She earned her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in philosophy in 1987. She has held teaching positions at various Universities, including George Washington University, University of Texas at Austin, and Stony Brook University. Currently, she is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.
She has published 19 books on topics ranging from family, love, war, and violence to affirmative action, Hollywood films, and animal rights.
