[lbo-talk] Butler

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jun 6 12:09:19 PDT 2008


On Jun 6, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Angelus Novus wrote:


> What interests me is that Butler, contra Foucault,
> embraces sexual identity, rather than seeking to
> negate it.

Eh? There's that famous anecdote about Butler asking a room full of apparent women if there were any women in the room, and no one raised her hand - though that's told by a sworn enemy of "postmodernism," who thought they were all afraid to disagree with Judy.

Doug



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