Gathered from various issues of the journal BOUNDARY 2, the essays in GENDERED AGENTS assess questions of sexuality, ethics, race, psychoanalysis, subjectivity, and identity--meant to challenge traditional Western epistemology and suggest new directions for feminism. These bold essays will interest not only feminist theorists and activists, but academics from a variety of disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, etc.

Introduction / Silvestra Mariniello 1
1. Transgressing Representation: Women's Ways Against Institutional Knowledge
Responsibility / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 19
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Post-Date / Hortense J. Spillers 67
The Uses and Abuses of French Discourse Theories for Feminist Politics / Nancy Fraser 123
Veiled Threats: Malek Alloula's Colonial Harem / Laura Rice 144
2. Undoing Discursive Constructions: Alternative Rhetorical Strategies
Maternal Discourse and the Romance of Self-Possession in Kate Chopin's The Awakening / Ivy Schweitzer 161
America, "Fat," the Fetus / Lauren Berlant 192
Queer Nationality / Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman 245
"The Most Suffering Class": Gender, Class, and Consciousness in Pre-Marxist France / Margaret Cohen 279
Brava! And Farewell to Greatheart / Judith Wilt 306
3. The Politics of Allegory: A New Understanding of Agency
Allegory and Dialectics: A Match Made in Romance / Doris Sommer 325
Blanchot's Au moment voulu: Woman as the Eternally Recurring Figure of Writing / Larysa Mykyta 349
Wuthering Heights: At the Threshold of Interpretation / Carol Jacobs 371
The Geography of Enunciation: Hysterical Pastiche in Kathy Acker's Fiction / Karen Brennan 396
Index 423

Silvestra Mariniello and Paul A. Bové, eds.