This book is a valuable intervention in Kristeva scholarship and a significant contribution to post-structuralist articulations of ethical and political agency and practice after the deconstruction of the subject. Introduction: Julia Kristeva's Outlaw Ethics, Opaque Texts and Transparent Contexts: The Political Difference of Julia Kristeva, Kristeva's Delphic Proposal: Practice Encompasses the Ethical, Julia Kristeva - Take Two, Kristeva and Levinas: Mourning and Ethics and the Feminine, Identification with the Divided Mother: Kristeva's Ambivalence, Renaissance Paintings and Psychoanalysis: Julia Kristeva and the Function of the Mother, Abject Strangers: Toward an Ethics of Respect, National Objects: Julia Kristeva on the Process of Political Self-Identification, Des Chinoises: Orientalism and Psychoanalysis and Feminine Writing, The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva, Toward a Feminist Postmodern Polethique: Kristeva on Ethics and Politics, Index.