Reviews for Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction

The average rating for Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-05-24 00:00:00 Charles Bartholomew Groundbreaking and clear in some places, dense and opaque in others. The first and final essays have been hugely influential in Gender Studies, denaturalising and questioning the subjects of feminism and breaking up the wholeness of Woman for good. If you're into Gender Studies, Queer Theory or Cultural Studies, read them asap. The other essays, which analyze particular texts (literary and filmic) are very specific, deep and ground on semiotics; if you are not into the objects of study or that kind of analysis, they might fly over your head as they did over mine.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-12-20 00:00:00 Daniel Hong i read this on the train. id pick up old de lauretis over butler any day. i just wish people who insisted on using althusser would integrate formal analysis with action more, like he does so well in "lenin and philosophy," by giving a thoughtful analysis of his strangling his wife to death. there is a good section in the second essay on foucault's paradoxical conservatism and his claim that rape should be decrimilized. what else, fuck fellini.