Comments on: Reasons I love the work of Sara Ahmed #5784926 http://ana.people.vee.net/archives/2007/09/10/reasons-i-love-the-work-of-sara-ahmed-5784926/ love in the time of cultural studies Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:22:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: not the motorcycle diaries » Pleasures, text, etc. http://ana.people.vee.net/archives/2007/09/10/reasons-i-love-the-work-of-sara-ahmed-5784926/#comment-129596 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:50:21 +0000 http://ana.people.vee.net/archives/2007/09/10/reasons-i-love-the-work-of-sara-ahmed-5784926/#comment-129596 [...] In this sense, as delightfully surreal as it felt sitting in that theatre with all the other girlfriends, there’s also something I really like about the literalness of a text like SATC; perhaps more so since I started having to come up with ways to teach social and cultural analysis. This isn’t really because of wafer thin characters like Louise and Magda but because of the patterns that they reveal so bluntly. The film brazenly walks us through the pathology of western womanhood (ladies bred by and for modernity, the price of getting to live past forty is the circular babble of the repression hypothesis coming to believe its own hype). In Berlant’s words: [...] […] In this sense, as delightfully surreal as it felt sitting in that theatre with all the other girlfriends, there’s also something I really like about the literalness of a text like SATC; perhaps more so since I started having to come up with ways to teach social and cultural analysis. This isn’t really because of wafer thin characters like Louise and Magda but because of the patterns that they reveal so bluntly. The film brazenly walks us through the pathology of western womanhood (ladies bred by and for modernity, the price of getting to live past forty is the circular babble of the repression hypothesis coming to believe its own hype). In Berlant’s words: […]

]]> by: ana http://ana.people.vee.net/archives/2007/09/10/reasons-i-love-the-work-of-sara-ahmed-5784926/#comment-116266 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:58:25 +0000 http://ana.people.vee.net/archives/2007/09/10/reasons-i-love-the-work-of-sara-ahmed-5784926/#comment-116266 :-) I see what you mean, but would still add that ye olde heteropatriarchal society, that favours men's sexual desires over women's, is overlaid onto said relationship - which is why I was thinking of it as a Feminist Issue, rather than simply a matter of boundary/relationship failure. :-)

I see what you mean, but would still add that ye olde heteropatriarchal society, that favours men’s sexual desires over women’s, is overlaid onto said relationship - which is why I was thinking of it as a Feminist Issue, rather than simply a matter of boundary/relationship failure.

]]> by: Peter Tupper http://ana.people.vee.net/archives/2007/09/10/reasons-i-love-the-work-of-sara-ahmed-5784926/#comment-116205 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:01:16 +0000 http://ana.people.vee.net/archives/2007/09/10/reasons-i-love-the-work-of-sara-ahmed-5784926/#comment-116205 The problem with 'g-string feminism" is not the g-string worn by Woman A. It's in the relationship between Man B and Woman C and their inability to agree on boundaries that satisfy both of them. Speaking as a guy who's been known to wear g-strings. The problem with ‘g-string feminism” is not the g-string worn by Woman A. It’s in the relationship between Man B and Woman C and their inability to agree on boundaries that satisfy both of them.

Speaking as a guy who’s been known to wear g-strings.

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