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ABSTRACTThis article examines issues of sexual inequality, charity, and utopia in the novels of Michel Houellebecq and situates them within similar discourses in the French tradition, notably within the works of Fourier, de la Bretonne, and de Sade. I trace a genealogy in French thinking about sexual inequality and utopia and note its recent expression in Houellebecq’s novels, arguing that Houellebecq’s work calls attention to the problem of arbitrary embodiment.
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