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Despite the prominence of feminist theory in literary, film, and visual arts critique, feminist theories of aesthetics remain rare, obscuring a crucial chapter in women's history. Ewa Plonowska Ziarek redresses this oversight through a full articulation of feminist aesthetics, focusing on the struggle for freedom in women's literary and political modernism and the devastating impact of racist violence and sexism. Her study is one of the first to combine an in-depth engagement with philosophical aesthetics, especially the work of Theodor W. Adorno, with women's literary modernism, particularly

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Toward an Experimental Ethos of Becoming: From Docile Bodies to Ethical Agency -- 2. Ethical Responsibility, Eros, and the Politics ofRace and Rights -- 3. Toward an Ethics ofDissensus: Lyotard's Agonistic Politics and the Pursuit ofJustice -- 4. The Libidinal Economy of Power, Democracy, and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis -- 5. Labor of the Negative: The Impossible Ethics ofSexual Difference and the Politics of Radical Democracy -- 6. Postmodem Blackness/Visionary Feminism: Paradigms of Subjectivity, Community, and Ethics in bell hooks's Work -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index

Winner of the 14th Annual Symposium Book AwardReconsiders Arendt's philosophy of natality in terms of biopolitical theory and feminism to defend women's reproductive choices and democratic pluralismRosalyn Diprose and Ewa Ziarek provide a reconfiguration of Hannah Arendt's philosophy of natality from the perspective of biopolitical and feminist theory. They show that Arendt provides new ways of contesting biopolitical threats to human plurality and the way biopolitics, along with sexism, racism and political theology target women's reproductive agency. They also extend Arendt's account of collective political action to include consideration of political hospitality, responsibility and story-telling as ways of countering the harms of biopower.The book offers an insightful account of the political ontology of Hannah Arendt and forms new dialogues between her and major 20th- and 21st-century thinkers including Foucault, Agamben, Nancy, Kristeva, Esposito, Derrida, Levinas and Cavarero.Key FeaturesThe first book length study of Arendt's philosophy of natality that engages both biopolitical and feminist theoriesTeases out the implications of Arendt's work for the diagnosis and contestation of the biopolitics of reproduction, including its racist elementsExamines how Arendt's philosophy of natality changes the meaning of political concepts including agency, freedom, power, community, democratic plurality, responsibility and political hospitality Engages with contemporary political issues, such as struggles for reproductive justice, to demonstrate biopolitics' continuing threat to democratic pluralismMobilises Arendt as a biopolitical theorist between Foucault and Agamben to take Foucauldian biopolitical analysis beyond its usual focus on medical sociology"

Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential French thinkers of the twentieth century and is best known for her work in linguistics. Even though her work has been very influential, the political implications of her writings have so far been neglected. Kristeva and the Political is the first book to explore the relation of Kristeva's work to the political and casts new light on her work, connecting her to recent developments in literary theory, political theory, and cultural studies. In particular it shows how Kristeva's account of the unconscious and psychoanalysis generally, widens the notion of the political. Each chapter introduces a fundamental theme in Kristeva's work, highlighting a specific period of development in her thought and drawing on texts from the 1960s through to the 1990s. Themes addressed include Kristeva's theory of discourse, the theory of the subject, the notion of alterity, feminism and marginality and her theory known as the 'politics of meaning'. Kristeva and the Political also shows how Kristeva's notions of the political draw on a rich array of thinkers and writers, from Freud, Melanie Klein and Lacan, to Proust and Marguerite Duras.

Introduction: revisitng the political value of culturally versatile everyday expressions of democracy, dialogue, memory / Idit Alphandary and Leszek Koczanowicz -- Democracy and memory at the crossroads of dialogue and tolerance in everyday life -- Everyday dialogue, memory, and democracy / Leszek Koczanowicz -- The idea of tolerance and social dialogue in the democratic state : remarks on Jacques Derrida's and Jürgen Habermas's views on the idea of tolerance in the modern liberal-democratic state / Pawel Dybel -- Exception, metaphor, and political action: arendt contra Schmitt / Ewa Plonowska Ziarek -- Radical politics : "we, the people" or "we mortals" / Krzysztof Ziarek -- Dialogue as the tool enhancing the effectiveness of NGO's activities in modern societies / Tomasz Grzyb, Katarzyna Byrka and Dariusz Dolinski -- Art and literature as custodians of traumatic memory, resistance and forgiveness in democracy -- Community at the table / Dorota Koczanowicz -- The thought from outside memory, truth and the "repetition of faith" / Ramona Fotiade -- "You have to write your own life" : storytelling as the modern piece of resistance / Agata Bielik-Robson -- Duras vs. Duras : traumatic memory and the question of deferred retroaction / Eran Dorfman -- The shifting landscape of Jewishness in contemporary Kafka criticism / Abraham Rubin -- Forgiveness, resentment, and responsibility are heterogeneous to politics W.G. Sebald's Max Ferber / Idit Alphandary -- Index

Part One: Philosophical reflections: law between ethics and aesthetics: -- Poietic "justice" -- art and the measure of mortality / Kryzstof Ziarek -- Repetition or the awnings of justice / Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos -- Judaism in the no man's land between law and ethics / Ariella Atzmon -- Seizing truths: art, politics, law / Igor Stramignoni -- Like the osprey to the fish: Shakespeare and the force of law / Richard Wilson -- Agonic is not yet demonic: at the be-ginning there will have be-come a de-cision / Oren Ben-Dor -- Nella Larsen's feminist aesthetics -- on curse, law, and laughter / Ewa Plonowska Ziarek -- I wish you well -- notes towards an aesthetics of welfare / Adam Gearey -- Part Two: When law meets art: creativity, singularity and performance: -- The torch of art and the sword of law -- between particularity and universality / Zenon Bakowski and Maksymilian Del Mar -- The play of terror / Ian Ward -- The poetic ocean in Mare Liberum / Stephanie Jones -- Reading law as literature: cases for conversation / Robin Lister -- Copyright activism as art -- aesthetics, ideology and ethics / Jaime Stapleton -- Musical performance, natural law and interpretation / Thomas Irvine -- Part Three: Law, justice and the image: -- A legal phenomenology of images / Costas Douzinas -- Flores quae faciunt coronam or the flowers of common law / Peter Goodrich -- The expressionless: law, ethics, and the imagery of suffering / Panu Minkkinen -- Governor Arthur's proclamation: images of the rule of law / Desmond Manderson

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.

Introduction. "Re-vision"?: feminist film criticism in the twenty-first century / Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer -- Masculinity in question. "The first bond who bleeds, literally and metaphorically": gendered spectatorship for "pretty boy" action movies / Janet Staiger -- Queer memories and universal emotions: A single man (2009) / Michael DeAngelis -- "Lad flicks": discursive reconstructions of masculinity in popular film / David Hansen-Miller and Rosalind Gill -- Transamerica (2005): the road to the multiplex after new queer cinema / Gary Needham -- New feminine subjects: a space for women? Enchanted (2007) by postfeminism / Yvonne Tasker -- Neoliberal femininity in Miss congeniality (2000) / Yael D. Sherman -- Girls' sexualities in The sisterhood of the traveling pants universe: feminist challenges and missed opportunities / Sarah Projansky -- Michael Clayton (2007): women lawyers betrayed-- again / Taunya Lovell Banks -- Crossing race, crossing sex in Gurinder Chadha's Bend it like Beckham (2002): managing anxiety in multicultural Britain / Mridula Nath Chakraborty -- Speaking the name of the father in the neo-romantic comedy: 13 going on 30 (2004) / Hilary Radner -- Consuming culture(s). -- No country for old women: gendering cinema in conglomerate Hollywood / Rob Schaap -- Music and the woman's film: Sex and the city: the movie (2008) / Peter Stapleton -- Independence at what cost? Economics and female desire in Nicole Holofcener's Friends with money (2006) / Michele Schreiber -- The feminist poetics of Sophia Coppola: spectacle and self-consciousness in Marie Antoinette (2006) / Christina Lane and Nicole Richter -- Relationships, identity and family. "Eggs in many baskets": Juno (2007), Baby mama (2008) and the new intimacies of reproduction / Jane Maree Maher -- Temporarily Kissing Jessica Stein (2001): negotiating (and negating) lesbian sexuality in popular film / Kelly Kessler -- "Die, Bridezilla, die!": Bride wars (2009), wedding envy and chick flicks / Heather Brook -- Extreme parenting: recuperating fatherhood in Steven Spielberg's War of the worlds (2005) / Hannah Hamad -- Gender and violence. Kinship and racist violence in Gina Prince-Bythewood's The secret life of bees (2008) / Ewa Ziarek -- From victim to vigilante: gender, violence and revenge in The brave one (2007) and Hard candy (2005) / Rebecca Stringer -- "When the woman looks": High tension (2003) and the horrors of heteronormativity / Barry Keith Grant