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Drawing on her two fields of expertise, as a professor of philosophy and a psychoanalyst at the department of psychoanalysis at the University of Paris-VIII, Clotilde Leguil reviews in her recent book, Being and Gender, Man/Woman after Lacan, the current approaches to gender and sexuality taken by philosophical feminism and psychoanalysis. On related subjects, she has published Les amoureuses: Voyage au bout de la féminité (2009) and In Treatment: Lost in Therapy (2013). Leguil's latest book anchors gender issues in their historical, philosophical, psychoanalytic, and aesthetic context. The multiple facets of her argument avoid the pitfalls of a radically unilateral approach to this complex topic.
As the book begins, Leguil underscores the difference between gender studies and the gender question in psychoanalysis. For gender studies, gender is a normative cultural construction that oppresses identity. In psychoanalysis, gender issues are tied to unconscious thoughts and fantasies