This book, published in the series Opening Out: Feminism for Today, under the general editorship of Teresa Brennan, represents part of the ambition of that series to ‘apply the living insights of feminist critical theory in current social and political contexts’ (p. vi) in order to counter the possibility that feminist scholars are becoming too insulated from the world outside. Psychoanalytic readers should also be aware that several other perspectives—post-modernist, French post-structuralist, critical legal theory, and especially, applied Lacanian psychoanalysis—are here assumed as vantage-points. Salecl notes that originally she had intended to write a ‘philosophical and psychoanalytical feminist reflection on events