Elizabeth Grosz

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Elizabeth A. Grosz is a feminist academic living and working in the USA. She is known for philosophical interpretations of the work of French philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, as well as her readings of the works of French feminists, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Michèle Le Dœuff. She has mainly written on questions of corporeality and their relations to the sciences and the arts.

She has held tenured positions at The University of Sydney, Monash University, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Rutgers University and Duke University.

Books [edit]

  • Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists (1989)
  • Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction (1990)
  • Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (1994)
  • Space, Time and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies (1995)
  • Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space (2001)
  • The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution and the Untimely (2004)
  • Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power (2005)
  • Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth (2008)
  • Becoming Undone. Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics and Art (2011)

Edited Books [edit]

  • Feminist Challenges. Social and Political Theory (1986), co-edited with Carole Pateman
  • Language, Semiotics, Ideology (1986), co-edited with Terry Threadgold, Gunter Kress and MAK Halliday
  • Futur*Fall. Excursions into Postmodernity (1987), co-edited with Terry Threadgold, David Kelly and Alan Cholodenko
  • Crossing Boundaries. Feminism and the Critique of Knowledges (1988), co-edited with Barbara Caine and Marie de Lepervanche
  • Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism (1995), co-edited with Elspeth Probyn
  • Becomings: Explorations in Time, Memory and Futures (1999)

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