Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Butches and Nomads: The Dynamic Imperative in Feminist Theory Chapter 3 Performative Agency and the Question of Being Chapter 4 "Becoming-Lesbian" and the Aesthetics of Body/Power Chapter 5 Does Dasein Have a Sex? Derrida on Heidegger's Geschlecht Chapter 6 A Difference of Air: Irigaray With Heidegger Chapter 7 Touched by Thought? Technology & Sexual Difference

About the Author

Ellen Mortensen is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is the author of The Feminine and Nihilism: Luce Irigaray with Nietzsche and Heidegger (1994).

Reviews

Ellen Mortensen's Touching Thought explores ontological questions surrounding sexual difference left unthought in much of contemporary feminism. With her tenacious and meticulous meditations on lesbian/feminist epistemology, ethics, and politics, Mortensen forces us to come to terms with Heidegger's challenge to Western thought.
*Kelly Oliver, SUNY, Stony Brook*