On lbo, they are having a delightful conversation, first about abortion and how, *sob* we all should just feel horrible that women must choose abortion because it’s just terrible terrible terrible to kill all those undead babies. *sob* and now, because Dwayne Monroe has actually been trying to have a reasonable discussion with someone I’ve [...]
thinking a lot about home lately as we try to figure out where we should live. i realized that i want to be home, someplace a little more settled. i have moved four times this year and i’m tried of not really having my own place. i’m terrified of buying because i don’t want to [...]
Last year, brownfemipower criticized u.s feminism because its rhetoric desexualizes women of color — a discourse that also exists within a wider u.s. discourse where women of color are racialized by hypersexualizing their bodies as well. And this can seem puzzling. How can both be going on? It’s also harder to illustrate, I think, because [...]
OK. So I finally got Dacia Ray’s Bi-Apple and watched it last night. Josh did a great job and I’d already remarked on him to R saying something like, “Woah, that dewd is always ready and rarin’ to go.” Anyway, I got a free copy of a Candida Royalle film with my order. So, I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’m republishing posts I written on Janet Halley, to help a reader with her research. Sorry I didn’t do it sooner. Laid up after a little spill on my bike. Originally published: 2006-08-08 13:25:54 Janet Halley says that maybe it’s time to take a break from feminism. Which seems like what a lot of us [...]
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