Contemporary feminist theorists have implied a special affinity between women and irony because of their ‘double’ relation to the prevailing order of things: both speak from within this order while remaining ‘other’ to it in some way. Irony can be regarded as the obvious mode in which a feminist might speak, as it reflects her relation to the patriarchal structure while refusing to validate the truth of the current sexual hierarchy. She Changes by Intrigue undertakes the first sustained analysis of the parallels between irony, femininity and feminism. By retracing the association of these terms through canonical and contemporary continental philosophy, the book seeks to illuminate a notion of sexual agency that has until now remained shadowy, in spite of its prevalence. Examining the recurrence of the ‘ironic feminine’ in texts by Kristeva, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Irigaray, Derrida and Kofman, it argues that a radical revaluation of the legacy of patriarchal thought in feminism is necessary before irony can be embraced as a feminist strategy. In this context, She Changes by Intrigue offers a new reading of what it means to write as a feminist ‘subject’. This volume will be of interest to students and academics working in the fields of gender studies, continental philosophy and critical / cultural theory. Introduction The ‘Impossible Dialectic’: Julia Kristeva The Anxiety of Irony: Søren Kierkegaard Unsustainable Change? The Traps of Ironic Femininity ‘Irony and Something Else’: Jacques Derrida Miming History: Jacques Derrida Afterword: The Lesson of Irony, The Future of Feminism Works Cited
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Lydia Rainford is a Lecturer and Junior Research Fellow at St. Hugh’s College, the University of Oxford. She is the co-editor of Literature and Visual Technologies: Writing After Cinema (Palgrave, Macmillan, 2003).
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If the perpetual problem for modern feminism is how to refigure categories and relations of gender and sex, then the theorist Julia Kristeva translates this problem into questions of essence, position and system. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dialectical anxiety, narcissistic agency, strategic undecidability, semiotic agency, ironic feminine, determinate nothingness, impossible dialectic, thetic phase, feminist agency, eternal irony, ironic status, individual prehistory, written intervention, gender parody, dialectical mediation, prevailing hierarchy, sexual specificity, ironic relation, mimetic relation, sexual decisions, sexual hierarchy, double gesture, dialectical structure, philosophical structure, ethical structure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ecce Homo, Tales of Love, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Luce Irigaray, Sarah Kofman, Stabat Mater, Jacques Derrida, Johannes Climacus, Soren Kierkegaard, The Gay Science, The Gift of Death, Victor Eremita, Black Sun, Constantin Constantius, Hegelian Aufhebung, Jane Gallop, Judge Wilhelm, Penelope Deutscher, Place Names, The Fecundity of the Caress, The Seducer's Diary, Women's Time New!
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dialectical anxiety, narcissistic agency, strategic undecidability, semiotic agency, ironic feminine, determinate nothingness, impossible dialectic, thetic phase, feminist agency, eternal irony, ironic status, individual prehistory, written intervention, gender parody, dialectical mediation, prevailing hierarchy, sexual specificity, ironic relation, mimetic relation, sexual decisions, sexual hierarchy, double gesture, dialectical structure, philosophical structure, ethical structure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ecce Homo, Tales of Love, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Luce Irigaray, Sarah Kofman, Stabat Mater, Jacques Derrida, Johannes Climacus, Soren Kierkegaard, The Gay Science, The Gift of Death, Victor Eremita, Black Sun, Constantin Constantius, Hegelian Aufhebung, Jane Gallop, Judge Wilhelm, Penelope Deutscher, Place Names, The Fecundity of the Caress, The Seducer's Diary, Women's Time New!
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- Thus Spake Zarathustra (Dover Thrift Editions) by Friedrich Nietzsche on 7 pages
- Fear and Trembling (Penguin Classics) by Soren Kierkegaard on 6 pages
- Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is; Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche on 6 pages
- Jacques Derrida (Religion and Postmodernism) by Jacques Derrida on 5 pages
- The Gift of Death (Religion and Postmodernism Series) by Jacques Derrida on 5 pages
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