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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;