"Muriel Dimen, a prodigious reader and a sparkling writer, takes us on a journey of insight through all the central questions that have plagued and enlivened the conjunction of psychoanalysis and feminism in the last two decades. She has a rare gift for synthesizing a wide range of theoretical issues while balancing awareness of the complexity of clinical practice and the historical, cultural context. This is a book that enlightens, educates, and stimulates, speaking to readers from diverse worlds while illuminating their common, profound concerns.”
--Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D., NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
"For a book to be both postmodernist and accessible is in itself a triumph. To be enlightening and personal and to reconfigure the territory of sex, intimacy, and power is a major achievement. If you read only one book on sex and gender this year, this is the one."
--Ethel Spector Person, M.D., Feeling Strong: The Achievement of Authentic Power
“There is a scintillating populist intelligence to Dimen's thinking, conveyed by a wit and irony that seem deceptively light. For this is a robust and serious work, challenging and wide ranging in its scope: a sexual discourse, intimate and powerful.”
--Christopher Bollas, British Psychoanalytical Society
"Muriel Dimen's book is an open and engaging treatment of psychoanalysis, feminism, and social theory. She offers an excellent overview of the debates, and reinvigorates hope that the tension among these fields will remain productive and alive. She coins new and surprising terms and ideas, and she works deftly to produce conversations among fields where there haven't been enough. Her work as a clinician and as a theorist comes together in a humane, subtle, even joyous account of the complexity of gendered life."
--Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
