Kelly Oliver
The Portable Kristeva
Julia Kristeva is a linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. This text provides a representative selection of her writings since the mid 1970s. (more)
Between the Psyche and the Social: Psychoanalytic Social Theory
This is the first collection of its kind to offer original, interdisciplinary essays on questions of social subjectivity. Contributors engage the disciplines of feminism, psychoanalytic theory, queer... (more)
Ethics, Politics and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writing:
An intervention in Kristevan scholarship and a significant and exciting contribution in its own right to post-structuralist discussions of ethical and political agency and practice. (more)
Family values: Reading between the lines
This text offers an analysis of conceptions of woman and man, maternity and paternity, nature and culture, and subjectivity and ethics. It calls into question the traditional image of the... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva
Considers the social and political significance of Kristeva's oeuvre. The social and political relevance of Julia Kristeva's work is perhaps the central question in Kristeva studies, and the essays... (more)
The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Social Theory of Oppression
We are, Julia Kristeva writes, strangers to ourselves; and indeed much of contemporary theory, whether psychoanalytic, historical, social, or critical, describes the human condition as one of... (more)
Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman
The work of philosopher Sarah Kofman has become a focus for many scholars interested in contemporary French philosophy since her death in 1994. The essays in this collection evaluate her most... (more)
Contemporary French Feminism:
Have we entered a historical moment of 'post-feminism'? This volume presents a timely and convincing 'no'. These essays demonstrate that there is a new generation of French women who take up... (more)