Questione di genere. Il femminismo e la sovversione dell'identità

Thrilling new vocabulary with which to alienate friends and offend family

I like my language esoteric and my discourse inaccesible

Badly written and destructive in its impact on academic discourse. Butler is a darling of the theory crowd, one of the required citations. I found nothing in it that went beyond the standard cliches concerning the inadequacy of essentialist definitions. That wouldn't earn it the one star; what does

Much has been said about the academic, impenetrable nature of the text in this book. (It was supposed to be for academics - surprise, surprise! Nobody expects physics texts to be written in layman’s terms even if they are revolutionary, we only write articles explaining them in layman’s terms later. Leggi tutto

دوستانِ گرانقدر، در موردِ این کتاب باید بگویم که بسیار سخت و پیچیده بیان شده است... برایِ خواندنِ این کتاب، بدونِ تردید باید آگاهی از اصطلاحات سیاسی و ادبیاتِ حزبی و بخصوص اصطلاحات و استدلال هایِ رایجِ آکادمیکیِ <فمینیستی> داشته باشید... به هرحال برایِ فهمِ «فمینیسم» در سطحِ بسیار بالا، این کتاب، می Leggi tutto

This was a woefully dense text, meant primarily for those who have read enough feminism to have at least a basic idea of the major concepts of feminist theory as well a basic idea of the theorists from whom Butler draws her arguments. I was aware of what Foucault, Beauvoir, Lacan, Freud and Levi-Str Leggi tutto