Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Speaking back -- Questioning postmodernism -- Reading postmodernism -- And feminism -- And theory -- Differences that matter -- 1 Rights -- Law and embodiment -- Rights and citationality -- Embodied rights -- 2 Ethics -- A postmodern ethics of difference and dissensus -- A feminist critique of universalism -- Otherness -- 3 Woman -- Becoming woman -- Woman as catachresis -- Feminism and woman -- 4 Subjects -- Detour through Lacanian psychoanalysis -- Postmodern subjects -- Identifying the subject of feminism? -- 5 Authorship -- The death of the author -- Does the signature have a sex? -- Auto/ethno/graphies -- 6 (Meta)fictions -- Reading postmodernism -- Narrating sex and the politics of form -- Phantasies of over-coming -- 7 Screens -- Seeing postmodernism -- Sex and violence in David Lynch's Blue Velvet -- Narrating rape in Peter Greenaway's Baby of Macon -- Conclusion: Events that move us -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION: SPEAKING BACK -- 1 RIGHTS -- 2 ETHICS -- 3 WOMAN -- 4 SUBJECTS -- 5 AUTHORSHIP -- 6 (META)FICTIONS -- 7 SCREENS -- CONCLUSION: EVENTS THAT MOVE US -- References -- FILMS CITED -- Index.