Description
Book SynopsisPsychoanalytic theory has traditionally taken sexual difference to be the fundamental organizing principle of human subjectivity. This book contests that assumption, arguing that other forms of difference - particularly race - are equally important to the formation of identity.
Trade Review“This is an incredibly smart book, one that does an excellent job of joining its psychoanalytical with its historical and political arguments and offers surprising, provocative, and convincing conclusions.”—Sally Robinson, Texas A & M University
“White Men Aren't is a lively and original analysis of the crisis besetting white male identity. It encourages the reader to think outside the box and to consider the premises of naturalized categories of thought. DiPiero has made a significant contribution to the fields of gender and race studies.”—Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, Boston College
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Believing is Seeing
1. Complex Oedipus: Reading Sophocles, Testing Freud
2. Missing Links
3. The Fair Sex: It’s Not What You Think
4. In Defense of the Phallus
5. White Men Aren’t
5. White Men Aren’t
Afterword
Works Cited
Notes
Index
