Cover -- Feminist Poetics: Poiesis, performance, histories -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Feminist poetics -- METALANGUAGE AND REWRITING -- SUBJECTIVITY, BODY, PERFORMATIVITY -- TELLING INTERTEXTUAL HISTORIES -- REWRITING LINGUISTICS -- Chapter 2 The poetics of rewriting: Poiesis, transmission, discipleship? -- KUHN AND PARADIGM CHANGE -- NEWTON AND RHETORIC: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENRE AND SCIENCE -- SCIENTIFIC FICTIONS: MAKING NEWTON DIFFERENTLY -- PERFORMING THE SCIENTIFIC BODY -- FOUCAULT REWRITING THE DISCIPLINES -- DE CERTEAU READING FOUCAULT REWRITING -- ROLAND BARTHES AND THE SUBJECT OF READING AND WRITING -- READING FORMATIONS AND THE OUTSIDE OF DISCIPLINE -- POIESIS AND DISCIPLESHIP -- Chapter 3 Teresa de Lauretis: Sexing the subject of semiosis -- TELLING (HIS)TORIES -- FEMINIST FILM THEORY -- IMAGING: THE PERCEPTION/SIGNIFICATION NEXUS -- NARRATIVE AND DESIRE -- SEXING THE SUBJECT OF SEMIOSIS -- MEANING, HABIT AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- HIGH AND POPULAR CULTURE -- WHOSE FEMINIST POETICS NOW? -- Chapter 4 Discourse, expressibility and things to do with Foucault -- FOUCAULT AND DISCOURSE -- FOUCAULT, LINGUISTICS AND THE VISIBLE (NON-DISCURSIVE) -- INTERTEXTUALITY AND INTERDISCURSIVITY -- THE MICROPHYSICS OF POWER AND THE ETHICS OF THE SELF -- THE OUTSIDE OF KNOWLEDGE -- BUTLER AND DISCOURSE AS PERFORMATIVITY -- Chapter 5 Rewriting linguistic poetics: The trace of the corporeal -- LANGUAGE AS SOCIAL SEMIOTIC -- REWRITING REGISTER -- GENRE -- HABITUS: CORPOREALITY AND THE TEXT -- INTERTEXTUALITY AND THE TEXTUAL FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE AS EMBODIED PERFORMANCE -- METALANGUAGE AND THE PROBLEM OF METASEMIOSIS -- REWRITING THE LINGUISTIC SYSTEM -- Chapter 6 Patriarchal contexts -- HABERMAS: GENDERED THEORIES OF THE SOCIAL -- DERRIDA AND THE SPEECH ACT -- PERFORMING GENERIC VIOLENCE AND THE MAKING OF SEXUAL DIFFERENCE.

Chapter 7 Poiesis, performance, (his)tories: Black man, white woman, irresistible impulse -- 'THE BODY ENACTS THE PAST…WHAT IS "LEARNED BY THE BODY" IS…SOMETHING THAT ONE IS' (BOURDIEU 1980/1990:73) -- FRAMING WHITE AUSTRALIA -- NED KELLY, BUSHRANGING, THE DORA DORA MURDERS AND SANDAWARA -- THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF MURDER -- READING THE ARCHIVE -- FEMINIST VOICES: OTHER STORIES -- LEGAL FICTIONS -- MEDIA, NATION AND NARRATION: 'THE THRILL OF HORROR' -- RACE AND UNRULY WOMEN -- THE MEANINGS OF PROTECTION -- WAIF, WITCH, WHORE: WHITE WOMEN WHO MARRY BLACK MEN -- IRRESISTIBLE PASSION: READING AND WRITING THE OTHER -- Chapter 8 The other side of discourse: Traces of bodies at work -- KENEALLY: THE NEATNESS OF THE STRUCTURE -- DISCOURSE, GENRE, DIALOGISM -- CLUNE, KENEALLY, SCHEPISI: HUGE STABILITIES OF DISCOURSE -- MRS FITZPATRICK: MAKING MEMORIES -- HISTORY AND ABORIGINAL TEXTS: MUDROOROO'S DOIN WILDCAT -- CODA: NARRATIVE, MEMORY, IDENTITY -- Bibliography -- Index.