Reviews for Gender basics

The average rating for Gender basics based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-11-07 00:00:00 Sven H�bner I made it up through the chapter on functional analysis/Sobolev spaces, but at some point in that vicinity, the author became a lot less clear - probably he made it to the end of his lecture notes and then added additional material. In any case, I skimmed the rest of the book. It's an OK introduction to mathematical PDEs for the applied mathematician, but there's probably a better text out there.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-03-06 00:00:00 Jonathan Dash Annoying: conventionally unconventional. I've been looking for a good introduction; this is not that. (Is it a coincidence that the best popularisers - Paglia, Greer, Moran - are all highly problematic?) Chanter manages to make exciting parts of feminism - e.g. Calhoun's post-deconstruction stuff - sound dull, dense and theoretically empty, as if it were the same kind of navel-gazing theorism as the hyperinflated Althusserian-Foucauldian stuff. (To be fair, any overview has to cover French theory, because that's what our counter-gender people have actually been up to for decades. But not blind acceptance.) You get the impression, here, that progress in feminist thought consists in calling your predecessors bigoted - JS Mill calls out the Victorians, Okin calls out JS Mill, Butler calls out Okin, Wittig calls out Butler, and then Calhoun calls Wittig heteronormative.