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).

Reviews

"Effortlessly and with humor and passion, Mansfield offers the reader a telling, trenchantly articulated account of the complex enigma of the self. With its graceful movements between disciplines, ideas, and areas of interest, Subjectivity deserves to become a benchmark for all such student introductions."--Julian Wolfreys, University of Florida

"I am who? No topic is more crucial to contemporary cultural theory than subjectivity, and Nick Mansfield has written what has long been lackinga lucid, smart introduction to work in the field."--Simon During, University of Melbourne