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Looks at gender and queer theories through lenses that are simultaneously retrospective and anticipatory, "American" and "French".

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Parabasis (Before the Act) 2. Queens and Queers: The Theater of Gender in "America" 3. Paradoxes of Visibility in / and Contemporary Identity Politics 4. The Ends of an Idiom, or Sexual Difference in Translation 5. Roxana's Legacy: Feminism and Capitalism in the West Notes Works Cited Index

About the Author

Catherine Porter is Professor of French Emerita at the State University of New York at Cortland and former president of the Modern Language Association. She has translated more than fifty books, including Bruno Latour’s Down to Earth and Elisabeth Roudinesco’s The Sovereign Self.

Reviews

"The scholarship of the book is a treat, as is the care with which Berger attends to distinctions or crafts a sentence."-E.S. Burt, University of California, Irvine