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Changing DifferenceAuthor(s): Catherine Malabou\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745651088, 978-0745651088\nSynopsis\nTranslated by CAROLYN SHREAD\n\nIn the post-feminist age the fact that woman' finds herself deprived of her essence' only confirms, paradoxically, a very ancient state of affairs: woman' has never been able to define herself in any other way than in terms of the violence done to her. Violence alone confers her being - whether it is domestic and social violence or theoretical violence. The critique of essentialism' ([url] there is no specifically feminine essence) proposed by both gender theory and deconstruction is just one more twist in the ontological negation of the feminine.\n\n Contrary to all expectations, however, this ever more radical hollowing out of woman within intellectual movements supposed to protect her, this assimilation of woman to a being nothing', clears the way for a new beg?