Mistress Judith (was Re: Butler on Spivak)

Roger Odisio rodisio at igc.org
Mon Nov 22 09:20:46 PST 1999


kelley wrote:


> P.S. The NYT Magazine article on Nussbaum says that Mistress Martha played
> Robespierre in her high-school drama club performance ("a five-act,
> French-language production, no less). Judging by her photo in the article,
> I believe she must have made a dashing & cruelly seductive Robespierre.
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> no doubt. however, it's unfortunate that an aging woman feels she must
> [apparently] work out at the gym several days a week --from the looks of
> her that is. all very interesting in terms of the regulation and social
> constitution of the body, no? that is, while it's nice to display a little
> lesbian eroticism it might also be nice to examine what 'we' are desiring
> here and if it's such a good thing.

Cardiovascular fitness? Reducing triglycerides in the blood? Lowering stress? Improving blood vessel elasticity? Stimulating fat clearing enzymes in the blood? Preventing/reversing artherosclerosis? All particularly important, it would seem, for an "aging woman".

RO


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