Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Original Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface (1999) -- Preface (1990) -- One Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire -- I "Women" as the Subject of Feminism -- II The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire -- III Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate -- IV Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary, and Beyond -- V Identity, Sex, and the Metaphysics of Substance -- VI Language, Power, and the Strategies of Displacement -- Two Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix -- I Structuralism's Critical Exchange -- II Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade -- III Freud and the Melancholia of Gender -- IV Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification -- V Reformulating Prohibition as Power -- Three Subversive Bodily Acts -- I The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva -- II Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity -- III Monique Wittig: Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex -- IV Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions -- Conclusion From Parody to Politics -- Notes -- Index.