Understanding Gender : Fragments of Feminine Sexuality : Some Considerations

Contents: Preface. I: 1. Freud's Copernican revolution: breakthrough in theory and methodology. 2. Development of gender identity. 3. From biology to culture: kinship, exogamy and the exchange rule. 4. Lacan and gender identity. 5. The social construction of gender and compulsory heterosexuality. 6. Wittig. 7. Foucault and butler. 8. Conclusion: identities in a post-modern world. Notes and references. II. Fragments of feminine sexuality: 1. Freud and the Freud Jones debate. 2. Karen Horney.