1st Edition

Space, Time and Perversion Essays on the Politics of Bodies

By Elizabeth Grosz Copyright 1995

    Exploring the fields of architecture, philosophy, and queer theory, Grosz shows how feminism and cultural analysis have conceptually stripped bodies of their specificity, their corporeality, and the vestigal traces of their production as bodies. She investigates the work of Michel Foucault, Teresa de Lauretis, Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler and Alphonso Lingi, considering their work by examining the ways in which the functioning of bodies transforms understandings of space and time, knowledge and desire. Grosz moves toward a radical consideration of bodies and their relationship to transgression and perversity.

    Introduction; One: Bodies and Knowledges; 1: Sexual Signatures; 2: Bodies and Knowledges; 3: Sexual Difference and the Problem of Essentialism; 4: Ontology and Equivocation; Two: Space, Time, and Bodies; 5: Space, Time, and Bodies; 6: Bodies–Cities; 7: Women, Chora , Dwelling; 8: Architecture from the Outside; Three: Perverse Desire; 9: Lesbian Fetishism?; 10: Labors of Love; 11: Refiguring Lesbian Desire; 12: Animal Sex; 13: Experimental Desire

    Biography

    Elizabeth Grosz