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This essay situates Kristeva's theory of semiotics in the context of the controversial debate about the status of the maternal body in her work. I argue that, if we rethink the opposition between the semiotic and the symbolic as the relation between the trace and the sign, it becomes clear that the maternal semiotic is irreducible either to the prelinguistic plenitude or to the alternative symbolic position. The second part of the essay develops the connection between Kristeva's linguistic theory and the alterity of the maternal body, articulated here as the in-fold of the other and the same.

1. "Women" in spurs and nineties feminism / Jane Gallop -- 2. Flirting with the truth : Derrida's Discourse with 'Woman' and wenches / Ellen K. Feder and Emily Zakin -- 3. The maternal operation : circumscribing the alliance / Kelly Oliver -- 4. Levers, signatures, and secrets : Derrida's Use of woman / Mary C. Rawlinson -- 5. On not reading Derrida's texts : mistaking hermeneutics, misreading sexual difference, and neutralizing narration / Tina Chanter -- 6. From euthanasia to the other of reason : performativity and the deconstruction of sexual difference / Ewa Plonowska Ziarek -- 7. Dreaming of the innumerable : Derrida, Drucilla Cornell, and the dance of gender / John D. Caputo -- 8. Where love begins : sexual difference and the limit of the masculine symbolic / Drucilla Cornell.

1. Opaque texts and transparent contexts : the political difference of Julia Kristeva / Alice Jardine -- 2. Kristeva's delphic proposal : practice encompasses the ethical / Jean Graybeal -- 3. Julia Kristeva : take two / Jacqueline Rose -- 4. Kristeva and Levinas : mourning, ethics, and the feminine / Ewa Ziarek -- 5. Identification with the divided mother : Kristeva's ambivalence / Allison Weir -- 6. Renaissance paintings and psychoanalysis : Julia Kristeva and the function of the mother / Mary Bittner Wiseman -- 7. Abject strangers : toward an ethics of respect / Noelle Mcafee -- 8. National abjects : Julia Kristeva on the process of political self-id / Norma Claire Moruzzi -- 9. Des Chinoises : orientalism, psychoanalysis, and feminine writing / Lisa Lowe -- 10. The body politics of Julia Kristeva / Judith Butler -- 11. Kristeva's politics of change : tracking essentialism with the help of a sex/gender map / Tina Chanter -- 12. Toward a feminist postmodern Polethique : Kristeva on ethics and politics / Marilyn Edelstein -- 13. Trans-positions of difference : Kristeva and post-structuralism / Tilottama Rajan -- 14. Transgression in theory : genius and the subject of La Revolution du langage poetique / Suzanne Guerlac.