Wear Clean Draws  (because there’s 5 million ways to kill a ceo)

2007-01-21 04:34:00
Oooops! I may be plagiarizing there. Whatev. I’ve been quite irked of late to read a lot of dismissals of theory and ideology, as if to say that asshattery and shitbagginess are caused by commitment to a political theory or ideology. I’m an ideologue and I am proud. Indeed, pretty much every single person […]

I rescued my old posts on Janet Halley’s Split Decisions, archiving them here: http://cleandraws.com/category/so-very-1998/janet-halley-so-very-1998/
sorry to be behind on that project. took a spill on my bike and had to recuperate.

2007-05-16 20:10:40
Little Light wrote:
B|L, I’m honestly a little surprised at you. Yes, some of these criticisms are sophomoric or by people who haven’t read the book. But you’re treating substantive arguments the same way as the idle sniping. I don’t care whether or not you agree with the critiques offered, but some of these […]

2007-01-23 00:22:13
Carpenter asked me a question off-blog. Seeing as how a Bitch can, for a change, breath a little, I decided to catch up with various things that have been put off in the search for jobs and gigs. Among the backlog of things to be done was slog through email. I had a huge […]

2007-01-19 15:37:14
If you followed the Burqagate wars, this article might help flesh things out. If you are still confused about essentialism and why it can be a problem, the article also illuminates, though I hope it’s not too big on the theory and strange words. The reference will also help ground my discussions of Janet […]

2007-01-19 02:02:24
“I suspect it can be a good thing to be internally riven: Teiresias was a prophet, after all, not the village idiot. But even if it’s bad to be internally riven, many of us (the postmodernists) just are. There’s no putting that genie back in the bottle. And the genie has mischievous ways of […]

2007-01-06 09:53:31
OK, so KH’s questions got me thinking. I decided to unbury Split Decisions I realized I needed to explain something that probably isn’t clear. Now, I was just going to flesh out Halley’s work. As I did so, though, I couldn’t help but think of how nubian and brownfemipower articulate their own convergentist and […]

2007-01-04 14:12:05
Since I’ve been very disengaged from the blog, I was kind of in a place where I was thinking, “Man, I’d like to get back to a time when I had hardly any readers and they all knew me already. So much more time to participate elsewhere and still write. Not much need to […]

2006-09-26 01:36:51
and blowing my mind. I’m reading the part about Judith Butler again because it just blew my mind. I’m just finding it fascinating that the person who gives Halley to most unexpected resistance is Butler! I woulda thunk that, if anyone could dig “Taking a Break from Feminism,” then it’d be Butler and what […]

2006-09-24 14:44:51
I’ve mentioned several times that one of the most persistent divisions among feminists was the question, “who is woman?” How do we define what a woman is? Whatever a woman is, then this woman must be our subject, the one for whom we advance our politics. If woman is fundamentally oppressed by rape, then […]

2006-09-24 19:36:06
Have you ever looked at Michael Berube’s blogroll? He ‘classifies’ the blogs like so:

* Those That Belong to the Emperor
* Those Drawn with a Very Fine Camelhair Brush
* Those Included in the Present Classification
* Those That From a Long Way Off Look Like Flies
* Fabulous Ones
It’s a wink at Foucault’s introduction to The Order […]

2006-09-23 02:42:03
I mentioned already that one of the things that makes Split Decisions refreshing to read — and also as if she sitting right next to you, chatting — is Halley’s forthrightness about her lack of objectivity. It is, no doubt, an interesting rhetorical device. Here’s another example of this sort of directness where Halley […]

2006-09-22 02:57:28
I can feel myself getting feverish from the flu, but it got worse as I read a passage from Split Decisions and said to myself, “Hot Daaaaaayum! I love this woman!” I have to post this excerpt, ‘coz this is for Belledame, too. It’s from the chapter entitled, ‘My Complete and Utter Lack of […]

2006-09-22 14:51:41
Speaking to queer, antiracist, postcolonial, and socialist struggles and justice projects, Janet Halley writes about power or governance feminism which = MacKinnon + cultural feminism + feminist practice as legal work and governance work (expertise) in NGOs:
This is perhaps the apogee of feminists’ prescriptive deployment of feminist theory. And it is a very dangerous […]

2006-09-22 01:43:52
First, Halley writes that Catherine MacKinnon reviewed portions of the book where she spoke to MacKinnon’s work. So, I’d say that’s pretty cool, eh? Second, a while back, when Belledame was reading a discussion of Thai prostitutes, she brought to everyone’s attention the work of someone who’d written about third world prostitution using Wendy […]

This is really interesting and makes clear why MacKIinnon should NOT be confused with people who find Ev0l in Teh Cock! However, I think what she does show is how MacKinnon nonetheless draws on their arguments in her legal work in ONCALE. If you don’t know of the case, here’s a little information about it […]

2006-09-17 00:48:47
Janet Halley explains her assertion that there are two MacKinnons, early and late. All underlines and bold are my additions and not in the original text. —————————————————————————-
SEXUAL SUBORDINATION FEMINISM The Structural Male/Female Model. In the book that did more than anything else to provide the theoretic basis for sex harassment law, Sexual Harassment of […]

2006-09-16 21:52:22
KH kindly pointed out that ‘Sexuality Harassment’ is online. The chapter is from a book with Wendy Brown, Left Legalism / Left Critique. In this chapter, Halley argues that, to better represent the interests of heterosexual women as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people we need to abandon the sexual subordination theories […]

2006-09-15 14:45:19
I am Curious Blue, you are the awesomest. He found this early paper by Janet Halley and, from my quick skim, it seems to outline the basic positions in her book, Split Decisions. Now, what truly intrigues me is that she wants to examine the convergences and points of departure between queer theory and […]

2006-09-12 04:55:59
All I can say is, hmmmm. A quote to ponder. I’m wondering how many folks would feel comfortable with this way of characterizing what Halley is calling sex positive feminism:
Dr. Halley also noted that feminist theory and queer theory often diverge. She went on to describe the characteristics she sees as essential for queer […]

2006-09-12 03:04:59
“In English departments, we sit and listen for hours to people talking about texts we’ve never read. And we act as if that’s fine.” — Janet Halley (transcribed. any errors, mine.) I’m listening to her lecture right now which maps out various feminist theories and queer theories. This is really awesome folks, so make […]

2006-09-08 21:22:57
Hmmm. I may have to have a crush on Janet Halley. Just luscious. Luscious. mmmmMMMMMmmmmm.
There are some labels Halley is comfortable applying to herself, however. “I’m a law professor,” she says. I’m a teacher. I’m a really good cook. And I’m a leftist.”
OH god oh god oh god. I can’t wait to read […]