Corpi che contano. I limiti discorsivi del «Sesso»

I feel like it's socially irresponsible to conduct a conversation about such an important topic using language that makes that conversation inaccessible to so much of the population. We get it. You're a smarty pants. But you fail to move the pegs when you're only talking to other academics.

Whilst I can't speak highly enough of the fantastic ideas in this book, it does share a problem with many post-modern critical writings. It insists on hiding simple yet powerful ideas behind overly esoteric language, potentially rendering them inaccessible to people who could make great use of them. Leggi tutto

Finished this a couple weeks ago but wanted to write a review so I didn't update anything. Yet, here I am, reviewless (needed to take better notes while reading this). Since I'm going to skim through this again anyway, I'm just going to post this for now. My current thoughts: 1. Butler has some reall Leggi tutto

This certainly cleared up a few ideas that seemed vague in Gender Trouble. Butler asserts here that the performativity of gender does not imply an agency that allows one to put it on and take it off as one pleases, which is in dialogue with Spivak's elaboration of deconstruction where she dismisses

This woman frustrates me greatly, for she thinks you can't pin her down, but she's so repetitive and obvious that even though this promises to provide the much needed clarifications to Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity , it just reaffirms everything I knew that was wrong with th Leggi tutto

Butler not only looks like a mad German philosopher but writes like one.

Yes, it feels pretentious to give Butler 5-stars, or to consider this one of the best books I read this year, but I think she's just fantastic. People bitch and moan about her 'moonspeak' but frankly, I think it's rare to find a theorist or a philosopher more inclined to help the reader understand-- Leggi tutto

This book is clearly a better version of her other book "gender trouble". It explains in much more detail the queering performativity which allows individuals to define themselves beyond just sexuality!