"A project whose glaring absence has been hiding in plain sight, clitoral pleasure has finally found its philosopher. Malabou tells us what we can do with our clitoral brain, uncloaking its agency and anarchic politics. Essential reading for anyone interested in interpreting sex otherwise than phallic and in relation to philosophy's power to shape the soma."Emily Apter, New York University
Translator's Preface1. Erasures2. Nymphs 1: Virtual Goddesses3. Nymphs 2: Images without Genitals4. Nymphs 3: Nadja, Or a Being Without Life5. Political Anatomy6. "Sexual Existence" According to Simone de Beauvoir7. Dolto, Lacan and the "Relationship"8. "The Feminine Sexual Organ is the Clitoris": Carla Lonzi and the Feminism of Difference9. Luce Irigaray: "Woman is Neither Open nor Closed"10. "With Tenderness and Respect for the Blameless Vulva"11. Mutilation and Repair: In Search of le mot juste12. Technologically Modified Bodies: Paul B. Preciado and Transfeminism13. Nymphomaniac: "Mea vulva, mea maximum vulva"14. Ecstasy Zones in the Real15. Clitoris, Anarchy and the FeminineNotes
Catherine Malabou is Professor of Philosophy at Kingston University London