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ludi_morg's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
sourbutchkid's review
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
I did struggle with understanding certain aspects of this book, but the things I did understand really resonated with me. The idea of lesbians not being women, and women as a class was particularly interesting to me. As a lesbian I really enjoyed this perspective and it was like I was getting confirmation on things I’d felt for a long time in relation to lesbians and gender and womanhood. If we live in a world that is so incredibly focused on men, where does that leave you as a lesbian? Just very very interesting and insightful. I do have some criticisms though. The comparison of women/lesbians to slaves was not….. good…. like at all. There is other language she could have used that did not position black women as separate from women as a class. I would be really interested to hear a black lesbian perspective on this…. It feels essential because I cannot ignore that very blatant flaw in the thought process. Regardless though, there are definitely a lot of very interesting ideas here and I’m glad that I took the time to read it.
katnissevergreen's review against another edition
4.0
"The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual. As such it does not concern being but relationships (for women and men are the result of relationships)...For the category of sex is the product of a heterosexual society which imposes on women the rigid obligation of the reproduction of the 'species,' that is, the reproduction of heterosexual society"
"The result of the imposition of gender, acting as a denial at the very moment when one speaks, is to deprive women of the authority of speech, and to force them to make their entrance in a crablike way, particularizing themselves and apologizing profusely. The result is to deny them any claim to the abstract, philosophical discourses that give shape to the social body. Gender then must be destroyed. The possibility of its destruction is given through this very exercise of language. For each time I say 'I,' I reorganize the world from my point of view and through abstraction I lay claim to universality. This fact holds true for every locutor"
"The result of the imposition of gender, acting as a denial at the very moment when one speaks, is to deprive women of the authority of speech, and to force them to make their entrance in a crablike way, particularizing themselves and apologizing profusely. The result is to deny them any claim to the abstract, philosophical discourses that give shape to the social body. Gender then must be destroyed. The possibility of its destruction is given through this very exercise of language. For each time I say 'I,' I reorganize the world from my point of view and through abstraction I lay claim to universality. This fact holds true for every locutor"