Judith Butler Is Difficult.
I'm fiiiiinally getting around to reading Gender Trouble. And it's good, it really is. It's just awfully dense, sort of like the book equivalent of one of those truffles with a million different layers and flavors that you have to eat in really small pieces and simultaneously anticipate and dread sinking your teeth into.
I'm reading Butler for a paper I'm writing on gender and performativity in Starman (The DC comic, not the Jeff Bridges film). I was having trouble finding the material I needed at the local libraries and was bitching about the hassle of interlibrary loan when my father decided to take matters into his own hands, as he explained in the following email:
I've taken the liberty of ordering you copies of *Gender Trouble* and *Undoing Gender*. By accepting shipment of these items, you will be agreeing to the following terms and conditions:
The texts in question are intended solely as sources of interesting and potentially applicable approaches to particular manifestations of gender. The sender disavows any responsibility for injuries suffered as the result of accepting or even taking too seriously the author's claims about the reality or unreality of phenomena other than those which figure in the author's favored approaches (e.g., of agents behind actions).
My dad is so cool.
I'm reading Butler for a paper I'm writing on gender and performativity in Starman (The DC comic, not the Jeff Bridges film). I was having trouble finding the material I needed at the local libraries and was bitching about the hassle of interlibrary loan when my father decided to take matters into his own hands, as he explained in the following email:
I've taken the liberty of ordering you copies of *Gender Trouble* and *Undoing Gender*. By accepting shipment of these items, you will be agreeing to the following terms and conditions:
The texts in question are intended solely as sources of interesting and potentially applicable approaches to particular manifestations of gender. The sender disavows any responsibility for injuries suffered as the result of accepting or even taking too seriously the author's claims about the reality or unreality of phenomena other than those which figure in the author's favored approaches (e.g., of agents behind actions).
My dad is so cool.