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Judith Butler, “Gender Trouble”
1990 1999 PREFACE: It is in sexual practice that gender is destabilized because “policing gender is sometimes used as a way of securing heterosexuality” xii [Foucauldian?]. “The sexi… more →
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Judith Butler, "Gender Trouble"
wrote 1 month ago: 1990 1999 PREFACE: It is in sexual practice that gender is destabilized because “policing gend … more →
Simone de Beauvoir, "The Second Sex"
wrote 1 month ago: 1949 Existentialist Simone de Beauvoir wrote The Second Sex in a little over a year. It forms the fo … more →
Betty Friedan, "The Feminine Mystique"
wrote 1 month ago: 1963 Betty Friedan’s book, released in 1963, is often credited as a catalyst for second-wave A … more →
Shoshanna Felman, "What Does A Woman Want?"
wrote 1 month ago: 1993 Felman wonders whether feminists can reclaim Freud’s famous question in a letter to Marie … more →
Barbara Johnson, "The Feminist Difference"
wrote 1 month ago: 1998 Feminism is no longer one thing, Johnson begins. It speaks multivocally and with contradictions … more →
bell hooks, "Ain't I a Woman"
wrote 1 month ago: 1981 hooks’ text takes its title from a speech given in 1851 by Sojourner Truth. hooks explain … more →
Theodor Adorno, "Aesthetic Theory"
wrote 1 month ago: 1970 Adorno’s approach to aesthetics eschews the division between philosophy, methodology, and … more →
Friedrich Schiller, "On the Aesthetic Education of Man"
wrote 1 month ago: 1794 Schiller’s letters distill a number of concepts from Kant’s ideas on aesthetics. Fo … more →
Immanuel Kant, "Critique of the Power of Judgment"
wrote 1 month ago: 1790 Also called the third critique, this is where Kant lays out his idealist philosophies on the su … more →
Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Enquiry"
wrote 1 month ago: 1756 Burke sets out to define and explore beauty with greater precision than has been done before. H … more →
Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One's Own"
wrote 1 month ago: 1929 Woolf begins her treatise, as she does so many of her novels, in medias res: “But, you ma … more →
Hayden White, "The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality"
wrote 1 month ago: 1980 “So natural is the impulse to narrate, so inevitable is the form of narrative for any rep … more →
Elizabeth Abel, "Signs of the Times"
wrote 1 month ago: 2010 Abel argues that the “thickness” of the ostensibly black/white binary of Jim Crow s … more →
Jennifer Hayward, "Consuming Pleasures"
wrote 1 month ago: 2009 Jennifer Hayward’s treatise on “active audiences” and serial fictions moves f … more →
Raymond Williams, "Television"
wrote 1 month ago: 1974 In this text, still a staple of televisual studies, Williams investigates the cause-effect rela … more →
Jean Baudrillard, "The Precession of Simulacra"
wrote 1 month ago: 1981 Baudrillard’s Simulacra & Simulation begins with the epigraph: “The simulacrum … more →
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility"
wrote 1 month ago: 1936 Marx’s analysis of capitalist production was prognostic: that it would exploit the prolet … more →
Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
wrote 1 month ago: 1964 Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, ha … more →
Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar, "Sexual Linguistics"
wrote 1 month ago: 1985 “Is anatomy linguistic destiny? Is womb a metaphorical mouth, a pen a metaphorical penis? … more →
