Another walk on the wild side. Three epigraphs from Judith Butler's Bodies that Matter: "Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?" - Donna Haraway "If on really thinks about the body as such, there is no possible outline of the body as such. There are thinking os the systematicity of the body, there are value codings of the body. The body, as such, cannot be thought, and I cannot approach it." - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak "There is no nature, only the efects of nature: denaturalization or naturalization." - Jacques Derrida This book, which I've only begun to sample, has a blurb from Margaret Whitford of the University of London that claims that it explores "gender as iteration"; another, from Elizabeth Grosz of Monash U, says that it explores "the politically transgressive potential of gender performativity." Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>
