Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism Book

Obviously, for those of you who've read me for awhile, you know I love this book. I'm reading it again because, still in the process of unpacking, painting, furnishing the new abode, this is one book I happened to have not packed in crates.

Someday, I'll write an actual review instead of the bits and pieces of blog posts that I have up currently.

Meanwhile, if you're at all interested in the subject, especially if you want to understand contemporary social theory from the perspective of *why* theory matters to politics, law, etc., you should read this book. If you're puzzled by postmodernism, pomo, post-structuralism, read about it from a practitioner and someone who is fun to read. Fun in the sense that you feel like the author, Janet Halley, is sitting on a sofa saying, 'Come sit here,' patting the sofa cushion, 'and let me tell you a little bit about how I came to think this way. It'd be great if you'd think more like me about this topic, but cool if you don't. But seriously, I'd rilly rilly like to seduce you, I won't lie.'

If you like it when someone just lays her cards out on the table like that, admits she does want to seduce you but recognizes that therein lies danger in any social movement, then you'll like that edge to her writing.

Oh, I must stop now because, otherwise, I will move to Boston and worship by Halley's feet, feeding her grapes, and wondering if I can call her Ian. :)