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Looks at gender and queer theories through lenses that are simultaneously retrospective and anticipatory, "American" and "French".

More than any other area of late-twentieth-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. In this book, a leading Franco-American scholar traces differences and intersections in the development of gender and queer theories on both sides of the Atlantic. Looking at these theories through lenses that are both "American" and "French, " thus simultaneously retrospective and anticipatory, sh...

IDemenageries, Thinking (of) Animals after Derrida/I is a collection of essays on animality following Jacques Derrida's work. The Western philosophical tradition separated animals from men by excluding the former from everything that was considered "proper to man": laughing, suffering, mourning, and above all, thinking. The "animal" has traditionally been considered the absolute Other of humans. This radical otherness has served as the rationa...

Anne-Emmanuelle Berger is Professor of French Literature at Cornell University.

Anne Emmanuelle Berger is Professor of French Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis and the author of The Queer Turn in Feminism. Éric Fassin is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis and a coauthor of Discutir Houellebecq: Cinco ensayos críticos entre Buenos Aires y París.