Gender, Identity, and the Production of Meaning (Feminist Theory and Politics Series)

In this study of the production and interpretation of meaning, Tamsin Lorraine argues that writing texts is a self-constituting, meaning-producing activity that is inherently gender-formed. At the core of her analysis is a theory of the self developed from Hegelian and Lacanian insights, critized and revised in the light of Irigaray and Chodorow. The value of this framework is dramatically demonstrated when it is applied to the reading of three "masculinist" texts, taken from Kierke-gaard, Nietzsche and Sartre.