Sexual Difference, Abjection and Liminal Spaces

This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the ways in which sexual difference can be understood as an encounter with otherness through the abjected, investigating social discourses and unconscious anxieties around 'monstrous' women throughout history and how they may challenge these characterisations.

Bethany Morris is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Lindsey Wilson College. She has her PhD from the University of West Georgia, USA and her research interests include Lacanian psychoanalysis, discourse analysis, and gender and sexuality.

1. Introduction 2. Sexuation and Becoming-Woman 3. Sexual Difference in Mythology 4. Sexual Difference and the Medical Gaze 5. Psychoanalysis and the Mother Monster 6. Fairy Tales and Femme Fatales 7. The Borderline, Jouissance and Capitalist Enjoyment 8. The Monster is in the Meme: Transgender People and Sexual Difference