The Phenomenal Woman

This original book enters the undeveloped territory of feminist metaphysics and offers a bold and unusual contribution to debates about identity, essence and self. Using a diverse range of theories - from Kant to chaos theory, from Kierkegaard to Deleuze, Irigaray, Butler and Oliver Sachs - this book challenges the assumption that metaphysics can remain unchanged by issues of sexual difference.

1. Introduction: Fleshy Metaphysics. 2. Essentialisms, Feminisms and Metaphysics. 3. Her Body/Her Boundaries. 4. Kantian Metaphysics and the Sexed Self. 5. Feminist Postmodernism and the Metaphysics of Absence. 6. Antigones of Gender. 7. Flesh with Trimmings: Adorno and Difference. 8. Kierkegaard, Woman and the Workshop of Possibilities. 9. Scoring the Subject of Feminist Theory: Kierkegaard and Deleuze. 10. Coda. Notes. Bibliography. Index .