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Examines Lyotard's writings in light of contemporary feminist theory.
The revolutionary French thinker Jean-François Lyotard indicates in many of his writings that one of the most significant philosophical problems is the problem of gender. In spite of this, feminist thinkers in both the continental and Anglo-American traditions have largely ignored his work, perhaps because his approach to the question of gender is unsystematic, fluid, and difficult. This volume attempts to situate the central concerns of contemporary feminist theory-aesthetics, embodiment, performance, sexual difference, ethics, testimony-within Lyotard's writings, to show that these concerns have always been there. Contributors discuss film theory, body modification, feminist critiques of science, postholocaust art, the feminine sublime, and theater. As a whole, the book serves as a robust meditation on the nature of "the political" as understood by Lyotard, and demonstrates the many different ways in which feminist concerns are taken up in discussions regarding the nature of the political in contemporary continental thought. An afterword by James Williams-one of the world's leading Lyotard commentators-is included.
"Ranging from politics to epistemology, from the theories of embodiment and aesthetics to colonialism, Gender after Lyotard stages a much-needed feminist engagement with diverse aspects of Lyotard's work. I am especially impressed by the comprehensive scope of this well-thought-out volume: it makes an important contribution to feminist theory and Lyotard studies alike." — Ewa PÂonowska Ziarek, author of An Ethics of Dissensus: Postmodernity, Feminism, and the Politics of Radical Democracy
"Marked by sensitivity to what Lyotard was about, this collection is the first to address Lyotard and gender." — Dawne McCance, author of Medusa's Ear: University Foundings from Kant to Chora L
1. Introduction: After Lyotard
Margret Grebowicz
I. The Human
2. On Promising and Destructive Monsters: Reading Lyotard’s "She"
Margret Grebowicz and Emily Zakin
3. I Ain’t Got No Body: Lyotard and Le Genre of Posthumanism
Neil Badmington
II. The Body
4. Incisive Bodies: Lolo, Lyotard, and the Exorbitant Law of Listening to the Inaudible
Nikki Sullivan
5. Lyotard’s Writing the Body: A Feminist Approach?
Charmaine Coyle
III. The Eye-Mind
6. Scenes From a Marriage: Lyotard, Pinter, and the Theater of Gender
Kellie Bean
7. Lyotard, Chadwick, and the Logic of Dissimulation
Rachel Jones
IV. The Psyche
8. Lyotard and Eurydice: The Anamnesis of the Feminine
Dorota Glowacka
9. "The Film-Work Does Not Think": Refiguring Fantasy for Feminist Film Theory
Theresa Geller
V. The Sublime
10. "Nourished... on the Irremediable Differend of Gender": Lyotard’s Sublime
Joanna Zylinska
11. Differend, Sexual Difference, and the Sublime: Lyotard, Irigaray, Duras
Andrew Slade
VI. Dissensus and Division
12. Feminist Science Studies after Lyotard: Dissensus, Knowledge, and Responsibility
Margret Grebowicz
13. Lyotard, the Colonial Condition, and Gender
Rada Ivekovic
Afterword On Mobled Power
James Williams
Selected Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index