Table of Contents

Introduction - philosophy and feminism, Penny Florence and Nicola Foster. Contemporary practices. In the (western) beginning: love and writing - Phaedrus and the Symposium, Robyn Ferrell; beautiful music a fixed pitch? Plato, music and gender, Barbara Underwood. And then there was (German) Enlightenment: Kant's ghost, among others, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe; aesthetics in the gaps - subverting the sublime for a female subject, Rachel Jones; living dialectics, Aufhebung and performance art, Petra Kuppers; Nancy Spero and "woman" in performance, Judy Purdom. And there shall be (polyvalent) beyond: transgressing with-in-to the feminine, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger; the gendering of allegory - Mary Kelly's "Post-Partum Document" and Benjamin's melancholy dialectics, Christine Conley; laughing with Susanne Stone - postmodernism, parody and feminist aesthetics, Catherine Constable; Cybertime - towards an aesthetics of mutation and evolution, Sean Cubitt; the morphology of the mucous - Irigarayan possibilities in the material practice of art, Hilary Robinson; a matter of paint - the carnal subject of aesthetics, Rosemary Betterton; from matter to materialisations - feminist politics and the aesthetic of radical difference, Marsha Meskimmon; working hot - materialising practices, Barb Bolt.