Gender Troubled…
Reader, I did it. I sat down and read ‘Gender Trouble.’ NB, trigger warning. It helps to read Sheila Jeffreys’ Unpacking Queer Politics first to ground yourself in love for lesbians, especially if you are one.
Butler’s avowed aim from beginning to end and throughout the book, is to destroy feminism as a politics of women’s liberation, and substitute a politics that takes as its starting point the irreducible fact of patriarchy as a ground of being. (She does not quite avow the aim at the beginning, but says feminism is headed for destruction, and maintains throughout that feminism is fatally flawed because its political subject, women, does not exist as a coherent class. She invokes the differences in women’s experiences including diversity of cultures in support of this premise, while ignoring the ways that feminism in fact responds to diversity while maintaining its project as the liberation of women, understood as…
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October 24, 2017 at 9:43 am
a sledge and crowbar
You’ve missed the works of Marilyn French who documents the start of patriarchy about 4000 years ago.
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October 29, 2017 at 8:11 am
The Arbourist
I’ll add those to my list, along Gerda Lerner. :) http://www.gerdalerner.com/the-creation-of-patriarchy/
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November 4, 2017 at 2:17 am
a sledge and crowbar
Marilyn French should be required reading. In case you, or some of your readers, don’t know, she published a four-volume history of women called “From Eve to Dawn”, a massive text on the origins and justifications of patriarchy called “Beyond Power” and another book called “The War on Women”. Collectively, they are eye-opening and jaw-dropping.
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November 4, 2017 at 8:13 am
The Arbourist
@ ASAC
Added to my reading list, thank you.
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