Table of Contents

Contents Introduction 1. The Free and Autonomous Individual 2. Freud and the Split Subject 3. Lacan: The Subject is Language 4. Foucault: The Subject and Power 5. Femininity: Female Imaginary to Masquerade 6. Kristeva and Abjection: Subjectivity as a Process 7. Masculinity: Saving the Post-Oedipal World 8. Radical sexuality: From Perverse to Queer 9. Subjectivity and Ethnicity: Otherness, Policy, Visibility, Colonialism 10. Deleuze and Guattari: Rhizomatics 11. The Subject and Technology 12. The Subject and Postmodernism Conclusion Glossary Bibliography

About the Author

Nick Mansfield is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University. He is co-author of Cultural Studies and the New Humanities (Oxford 1997) and author of Masochism: The art of power (Praeger 1997).