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The celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone“s legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler“s new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the incest taboo in relation to kinship... read more

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I began to think about Antigone a few years ago as I wondered what happened to those feminist efforts to confront and defy the state.

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