Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--York University.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index.
Dialectical beginnings: woman and the dialectic in Hegel and Marx -- Hegel: recognition, intersubjectivity, and desire -- The phenomenology of spirit -- Hegel's Antigone -- The philosophy of right -- Hegel's Antigone in the modern world -- Marx: the double dislectic -- Marx's project -- Dialectical discontinuity -- Marx and woman's liberation -- Authority and the family in critical theory -- Psyche and society -- The critical theory of the Frankfurt School -- The specific logic of the family -- Society without the father -- Society without the mother -- Antigone revisited -- Woman qua woman? -- Freud on the female psyche -- Oedipus and castration -- Work and love -- Hysteria, anorexia nervosa, and agoraphobia -- Beyond Oedipus? -- Dialectic development: woman and nature in critical theory -- The domination of nature -- Return of the repressed -- Maternal eros -- The feminine principle -- Repressive desublimation -- The revolt of nature -- Memory: happiness or suffering? -- Woman's experience: renaming the dialectic of desire and recognition -- Woman as mother, lover, and wife -- The odyssey revamped -- Medea: the female Odysseus? -- Woman's desire and the primal horde of brothers -- Motherhood and sisterhood reconsidered -- Identity, non-identity, and naming.