Thinking the Feminine: Aesthetic Practice as Introduction to Bracha Ettinger and the Concepts of Matrix and Metramorphosis

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-65

  Pollock, Griselda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aesthetic theory; cultural theory; feminist theory; matrixial theory; psychoanalytic theory; subjectivity; trans subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 2042505037     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276404040479     Document Type: Article

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