The deconstruction of sex
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The deconstruction of sex
（A cultural politics book）
Duke University Press, 2021
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [105]-108) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In The Deconstruction of Sex, Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh discuss how a deconstructive approach to sex helps us negotiate discourses about sex and foster a better understanding of how sex complicates our everyday existence in the age of #MeToo. Throughout their conversation, Nancy and Goh engage with topics ranging from relation, penetration, and subjection to touch, erotics, and jouissance. They show how despite its entrenchment in social norms and centrality to our being-in-the-world, sex lacks a clearly defined essence. At the same time, they point to the potentiality of literature to inscribe the senses of sex. In so doing, Nancy and Goh prompt us to reconsider our relations with ourselves and others through sex in more sensitive, respectful, and humble ways without bracketing the troubling aspects of sex.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Sex "Is" Deconstruction / Irving Goh 1
0. The Deconstruction of Sex: Opening Questions 16
1. Troubling Thought(s): Sex and Deconstruction 20
2. On Touching-Sex 35
3. Who Comes before/after Sex? 53
4. S/exscription 70
Afterword: Sex and the Killjoy / Claire Colebrook 83
Acknowledgments 93
Notes 95
Bibliography 105
Index 109
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