The Routledge critical and cultural theory reader

1. Preface to a 'Contribution to the critique of political economy' / Karl Marx (1859)

2. A note on the unconscious in psychoanalysis / Sigmund Freud (1912)

3. Linguistic value / Ferdinand de Saussure (1916)

4. Womanliness as a masquerade / Joan Riviere (1929)

5. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin (1936)

6. The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience / Jacques Lacan (1949)

7. The fact of blackness / Frantz Fanon (1952)

8. Culture is ordinary / Raymond Williams (1958)

9. The social text / Henri Lefebvre (1961)

10. The burden of history / Hayden White (1966)

11. The death of the author / Roland Barthes (1968)

12. Differance / Jacques Derrida (1968)

13. Walking in the city / Michel de Certeau (1974)

14. What is a minor literature? / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1975)

15. Panopticism / Michel Foucault (1975)

16. Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey (1975)

17. Introduction to 'Orientalism' / Edward Said (1978)

18. Encoding/decoding / Stuart Hall (1980)

19. Approaching abjection / Julia Kristeva (1980)

20. Simulacra and science fiction / Jean Baudrillard (1981)

21. Answer to the question: What is the postmodern? / Jean-François Lyotard (1982)

22. Thinking sex: notes towards a radical theory of the politics of sexuality / Gayle Rubin (1984)

23. A manifesto for cyborgs: science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s / Donna J. Haraway (1985)

24. How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa

25. Imitation and gender insubordination / Judith Butler (1991)

26. Under western eyes: feminist scholarship and colonial discourses / Chandra Talpade Mohanty (1991)

27. Introduction to 'Homo sacer: sovereign power and bare life' / Giorgio Agamben (1995)

28. What does queer theory teach us about x? / Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner (1995)

29. Who owns "human nature"? / Marjorie Garber (2003).