Index incest taboo, 52–55, 80, 83–84, 87–88, 110, 204n 19 “incorporation” of identity, 86–91, 171–74 internalization, 170–74, 207n 38 “In the Penal Colony” (Kafka), 166, 186, 201–2n Irigaray, Luce, 14–18, 25–27, 34–37, 40, 52, 53, 60, 201n 54 Jameson, Fredric, 176, 201n 56 “Joan Riviere and the Masquerade” (Heath), 67–68 Jones, Ernest, 64 jouissance, 55, 71 Kafka, Franz, 166, 186, 193n 2, 201–2n Kant, Immanuel, 71 kinship, 37, 49–55, 91–100, 115–16 Klein, Melanie, 206–7n 32 Kristeva, Julia: on the abject, 169–70; on Lacan, 101–2, 104–5; on lesbianism, 107–14; and the maternal body, 101–19; on melancholy, 73, 206–7n 32; as orientalist, 114; on repression, 104–5, 115–17; on the Symbolic, 102, 104–10 Lacan, Jacques: Kristeva on, 101–2, 104–5; and lesbian sexuality, 62–64; and the Law, 55, 59, 70–72; and masquerade, 60–73; on the Phallus, 56–60; on sexual difference, 36–39; on the Symbolic, 57, 70–73, 101–2, 104 language: and culture, 55; gender in, 28–30; poetic, 101–12; and identity, 182–86; and power, 33–44 law, paternal, 86–88, 101–2, 118–19, 200n 52 Law, the, 55, 59, 70–72 Leibniz, Gottfried, 51 Lesbian Body,The (Wittig), 35–36, 153, 159–60, 169 lesbianism: and the body, 35–36, 159–60, 163–71; identities within, 41, 156–58; Lacan on, 62–64; and overthrow of heterosexuality, 95–96, 151–55; and subjecthood, 25–27; vs category of women, 26–27, 162–63 Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 49–55, 91–93 “Life in the XY Corral” (FaustoSterling), 137–41 literalization, 87–91 Local Knowledge (Geertz), 50 Locke, John, 158 MacCormack, Carol, 48 Marcuse, Herbert, 92 “Mark of Gender,The” (Wittig), 28–29 Marx, Karl, 8, 34, 44, 183 masquerade, 60–73, 204n 18 melancholia, 73–84, 204n 19, 206–7n 32 Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America (Newton), 163, 174 “Motherhood According to Bellini” (Kristeva), 71 mourning, 73–84, 107–9 “Mourning and Melancholia” (Freud), 73–74, 78–79 Newton, Esther, 163, 174, 205n 22 219