Space, Time and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies

Grosz celebrates and re-situates the body in the space between feminism and philosophy, feminism and cultural analysis and feminism and critical thought. She investigates the work of Foucault, Deleuze, Butler and Lingis. Exploring the fields of architecture, philosophy, and queer theory, Grosz shows how feminism and cultural analysis have conceptually stripped bodies of their specificity, their corporeality, and the vestigal traces of their production as bodies. She investigates the work of Michel Foucault, Teresa de Lauretis, Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler and Alphonso Lingi, considering their work by examining the ways in which the functioning of bodies transforms understandings of space and time, knowledge and desire. Grosz moves toward a radical consideration of bodies and their relationship to transgression and perversity.