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This chapter explains the main conceptions of sexual difference that have influenced feminist theory, tracing their roots in the psychoanalysis of Freud and Lacan, and then introducing the radical rethinking of sexual difference put forward by Luce Irigaray. For Irigaray, in the Western symbolic order there has only ever been sexual hierarchy, not genuine sexual difference. Her political program for changing the symbolic order to create a positive feminine subject-position—one that is not merely the underside or negative opposite of the masculine position—has been developed practically by some Italian feminists. Conceptions of sexual difference have also helped feminist theorists to rethink embodiment beyond the sex/gender distinction. The chapter concludes by considering how conceptions of sexual difference have made various current directions in feminist theory possible, including the new "material feminisms."

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Usage -- Framing the Question: A Preamble -- 1 Shaping the Tools: Three Concepts -- Social identity formation -- Diaspora -- Creolization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Exploring Difference: Early Interactions -- Early explanations of difference -- Babylon as metaphor -- Kant: the flawed cosmopolitan -- Civilization or Kultur -- Herder's intervention -- Dancing and cannibal talk -- Talking to each other: the beginnings of convergence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Locating Identity Formation: Contact Zones -- Islands and plantations as contact zones -- Islanded identities -- Port cities as contact zones -- Super-diverse cities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Expressing Merged Identities: Music -- Encounters in Cape Verde -- Diasporic and creolized identities in Louisiana -- Authenticity and longing: the music of Cape Verde -- Louisiana: the wellspring of popular music -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Celebrating and Resisting: Carnival -- Situating carnival and the 'carnivalesque' -- Mardi Gras in Louisiana -- Carnival in Cape Verde -- Carnival in London -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Constructing Heritage -- Mauritius: the era of creolization -- The revival of diasporic heritages in Mauritius -- Creolization in northwestern Louisiana -- Decreolization and the recovery of a Creole heritage culture -- Reaffirming creolization: Louisiana and Mauritius -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Marking Identities: The Cultural Politics of Multiple Loyalties -- French and Martinican: in harmony or at odds? -- Marking difference from the metropole -- Environmental markers: what lies beneath? -- Social markers: Martinican or metropolitain? -- Cultural or creole markers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 Encountering Difference: A Conclusion -- Concepts -- Encounters -- Spaces -- Music and carnival -- Other cultural practices.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Diane Easthope -- Editor's Preface -- 1 Duchamp -- 2 Heath -- 3 From Marxism to Difference -- 4 Said -- 5 Bhabha -- 6 Rose -- 7 Haraway -- 8 Braidotti -- 9 Butler -- 10 Dollimore -- 11 Eagleton -- 12 Grossberg -- 13 Žižek -- 14 The Two Jakes -- 15 Conclusion -- References -- Index.