'Derrida and Feminism' is the first volume of philosophical writings to address the intersection of Derridean and feminist theories. These essays represent the extensive and diverse responses that feminist theorists have had to Derrida, particularly on issues of gender, identity, and the construction of the subject. Here, contributors interrogate and apply Derridean critiques in the service of gender analysis, and they affirm the value of interventions of feminist theory for deconstructive analysis.

Ellen K. Feder teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Vassar College.

Mary C. Rawlinson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook.

Emily Zakin teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Miami University.

Introduction -- Ellen K. Feder, Mary C. Rawlinson, andEmily Zakin; 1. Jane Gallop -- "Women" in Spurs and Nineties Feminism; 2. Ellen K. Feder and Emily Zakin-- Flirting with the Truth: Derrida's Discourse with 'Woman' and Wenches; 3. Kelly Oliver -- The MaternalOperation: Circumscribing the Alliance; 4. Mary C.Rawlinson--Levers, Signatures, and Secrets: Derrida's Useof Woman; 5. Tina Chanter -- On Not Reading Derrida's Texts: Mistaking Hermeneutics, Misreading Sexual Difference, and Neutralizing Narration; 6. EwaPlonowska Ziarek -- From Euthanasia to the Other of Reason: Performativity and the Deconstruction of Sexual Difference; 7. John D. Caputo -- Dreaming of the Innumerable: Derrida, Drucilla Cornell, and the Dance of Gender; 8. Drucilla Cornell -- Where Love Begins: Sexual Difference and the Limit of the Masculine Symbolic.