A valuable 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. Contributors: Judith Butler, Tina Chanter, Marilyn Edelstein, Jean Graybeal, Suzanne Guerlac, Alice Jardine, Lisa Lowe, Noelle McAfee, Norma Claire Moruzzi, Kelly Oliver, Tilottma Rajan, Jacqueline Rose, Allison Weir, Mary Bittner Wiseman, Ewa Ziarek

Introduction: Julia Kristeva's Outlaw Ethics, KellyOliver; Chapter 1 Opaque Texts and Transparent Contexts: The Political Difference of Julia Kristeva (abridged version), AliceJardine; Chapter 2 Kristeva's Delphic Proposal: "Practice Encompasses the Ethical", JeanGraybeal; Chapter 3 Julia Kristeva-Take Two, JacquelineRose; Chapter 4 Kristeva and Levinas: Mourning, Ethics, and the Feminine, EwaZiarek; Chapter 5 Identification with the Divided Mother: Kristeva's Ambivalence, AllisonWeir; Chapter 6 Renaissance Paintings and Psychoanalysis: Julia Kristeva and the Function of the Mother, Mary BittnerWiseman; Chapter 7 Abject Strangers: Toward an Ethics of Respect, NoëlleMcAfee; Chapter 8 National Abjects: Julia Kristeva on the Process of Political Self-Identification, Norma ClaireMoruzzi; Chapter 9 Des Chinoises: Orientalism, Psychoanalysis, and Feminine Writing, LisaLowe; Chapter 10 The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva, JudithButler; Chapter 11 Kristeva's Politics of Change: Tracking Essentialism with the Help of a Sex/Gender Map, TinaChanter; Chapter 12 Toward a Feminist Postmodern Poléthique: Kristeva on Ethics and Politics, MarilynEdelstein; Chapter 13 Trans-Positions of Difference: Kristeva and Post-structuralism, TilottamaRajan; Chapter 14 Transgression in Theory:Genius and the Subject of La Révolution du langage poétique, SuzanneGuerlac; Index; Contributors;