Acknowledgments -- Parabasis (before the act) -- Queens and queers : the theater of gender in "America" -- Paradoxes of Visibility in/and contemporary identity politics -- The ends of an idiom, or sexual difference in translation -- Roxana's legacy : feminism and capitalism in the West -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.
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At a time when gender and queer theories appear to its American proponents to have exhausted themselves, they are hailed in France as something new. Yet, more than any area of late 20th-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. The author uses this particular temporal and intellectual juncture to look again at a certain history and theory of gender and sexuality.