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

Thrilling new vocabulary with which to alienate friends and offend family

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

I like my language esoteric and my discourse inaccesible

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

One of the reasons why theory remains theoretical and largely confined to the ivory tower of academia is that it is grossly inaccessible to most people, especially to those who could benefit the most from what it reveals. Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is one of those endlessly frustrating books t