Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Our Beauvoir 1
5. 1. (Re)Encountering The Second Sex 17
6. PART I. ENEMIES MONSTERS, MEN, AND MISOGYNIST ART
7. 2. “An Eye for an Eye” with Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem 37
8. 3. The Marquis de Sade’s Bodies in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist 67
9. PART II. ALLIES ANTINOMIES OF ACTION IN CONDITIONS OF VIOLENCE
10. 4. Violence, Pathologies, and Resistance in Frantz Fanon 93
11. 5. In Solidarity with Richard Wright 122
12. PART III. FRIENDS CONVERSATIONS THAT CHANGE THE RULES
13. PART III. FRIENDS CONVERSATIONS THAT CHANGE THE RULES 149
14. 6. Perverse Protests from Chantal Akerman to Lars von Trier 149
15. 7. Unbecoming Women with Violette Leduc, Rahel Varnhagen, and Margarethe von Trotta 176
16. Conclusion: A Happy Ending 203
17. Notes 209
18. References 235
19. Index 247