Reviews for Benjamin's Ghosts

The average rating for Benjamin's Ghosts based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-01-03 00:00:00 Benoit Legare I quite enjoyed the cultural theory in this book, yet I found it to be entertaining at most. The grotesque rejection of any marxist or class analysis of gender / sexuality left a bad impression on me. I feel like Queer theory cannot loom into itself and become its own school of thought, it must ground itself further into feminist and marxist thought rather than try to escape it.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-11-04 00:00:00 Geocorey Brooks A shockingly relevant (albeit uneven) collection of essays summarizing the state of queer theory in the early 1990s. Standouts include Steven Seidman's "Identity and Politics in a 'Postmodern' Gay Culture" and Lauren Berlant & Elizabeth Freeman's "Queer Nationality."