John O'Neill is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at York University in Toronto, a Member of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of several books, including The Poverty of Postmodernism, and the coeditor of The Journal of Classical Sociology and the international quarterly Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

"O'Neill is a master stylist. No reader will doubt the breadth of knowledge and reading that mark his intellectual mastery of philosophy and sociology, as well as of postmodern theories. This book is not only a trenchant analysis of twentieth-century Anglo American society, but also a demonstration of cultural theory in a new mode." — Ellie Ragland, University of Missouri"The status of the body and sexuality in critical theory is of immense importance at a time when postmodern theory tends to embrace a fractured, decentered view of the subject, thus abandoning the ground of social change in people's everyday lives." — Ben Agger, University of Texas at Arlington

• Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Incorporating Theory 1. Infant Theory 2. Parson's Baby: The Gift of Life 3. What Gives (with Derrida)? 4. Doubling Mother: The Case of Leonardo 5. Becoming a Woman: The Case of Dora 6. Becoming-Woman: The Case of Schreber 7. Bourgeois Baby: The Case of Zeno 8. "He(g)elle": Parricide in Derrida/Bataille 9. Lyotard's Kids: Lost in the Post 10. Jurassic Baby: Dinosaurs-R-USA 11. Millennial Madonna: Born-in-the-UK 12. ECCE HOMO-textuality: Barthes's Maternity Conclusion: Remembering the Millennium References Index

John O'Neill is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at York University in Toronto, a Member of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of several books, including The Poverty of Postmodernism, and the coeditor of The Journal of Classical Sociology and the international quarterly Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

"O'Neill is a master stylist. No reader will doubt the breadth of knowledge and reading that mark his intellectual mastery of philosophy and sociology, as well as of postmodern theories. This book is not only a trenchant analysis of twentieth-century Anglo American society, but also a demonstration of cultural theory in a new mode." — Ellie Ragland, University of Missouri"The status of the body and sexuality in critical theory is of immense importance at a time when postmodern theory tends to embrace a fractured, decentered view of the subject, thus abandoning the ground of social change in people's everyday lives." — Ben Agger, University of Texas at Arlington

• Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Incorporating Theory 1. Infant Theory 2. Parson's Baby: The Gift of Life 3. What Gives (with Derrida)? 4. Doubling Mother: The Case of Leonardo 5. Becoming a Woman: The Case of Dora 6. Becoming-Woman: The Case of Schreber 7. Bourgeois Baby: The Case of Zeno 8. "He(g)elle": Parricide in Derrida/Bataille 9. Lyotard's Kids: Lost in the Post 10. Jurassic Baby: Dinosaurs-R-USA 11. Millennial Madonna: Born-in-the-UK 12. ECCE HOMO-textuality: Barthes's Maternity Conclusion: Remembering the Millennium References Index

John O'Neill is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at York University in Toronto, a Member of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of several books, including The Poverty of Postmodernism, and the coeditor of The Journal of Classical Sociology and the international quarterly Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

"O'Neill is a master stylist. No reader will doubt the breadth of knowledge and reading that mark his intellectual mastery of philosophy and sociology, as well as of postmodern theories. This book is not only a trenchant analysis of twentieth-century Anglo American society, but also a demonstration of cultural theory in a new mode." — Ellie Ragland, University of Missouri"The status of the body and sexuality in critical theory is of immense importance at a time when postmodern theory tends to embrace a fractured, decentered view of the subject, thus abandoning the ground of social change in people's everyday lives." — Ben Agger, University of Texas at Arlington

• Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Incorporating Theory 1. Infant Theory 2. Parson's Baby: The Gift of Life 3. What Gives (with Derrida)? 4. Doubling Mother: The Case of Leonardo 5. Becoming a Woman: The Case of Dora 6. Becoming-Woman: The Case of Schreber 7. Bourgeois Baby: The Case of Zeno 8. "He(g)elle": Parricide in Derrida/Bataille 9. Lyotard's Kids: Lost in the Post 10. Jurassic Baby: Dinosaurs-R-USA 11. Millennial Madonna: Born-in-the-UK 12. ECCE HOMO-textuality: Barthes's Maternity Conclusion: Remembering the Millennium References Index