Transformations Book

One of the best feminists' works today! and will truly be a classic soon. I totally love her existencial phenomenological approach. Maybe that's just me. I'm a pluralist as well as a pheonomenologist. Too bad that Iris Young died so early. Otherwise, I could completely imagine myself studying with her, directly benifit from her wonderful insight and knowledge.

Young eloquently covered a wide range of topics which are essential for women's whole life cycle. From body to home, from young to old age, from identity to subjectivity. I value her critiques of Beauvoir and Butler, they are both right to the point and constructive.

If there's someone truly "beyond gender dichotomy", I'd say Young is one of them. Butler is still fighting and deconstructing gender/sex, her action itself is creating another dichotomy by denying gender/sex all together. Beauvoir is not our contemporary. Even though her ground-breaking work is still insightful and inspiring today, she herself is by no means limited and constrained by her time and situation, denial is still very prominent in her work. I agree that under those conditions, denial might be necessary (so that your voice get heard). Because of her work and all the work by previous feminists, today, we could have the luxury to say, maybe we don't really have to reject everything :)