The title of this site is taken from Rhoda Ann Kananaah's book, "Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel." Feel free to ask her what it means.
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On allegories
the organizational structure of the standard Judith Butler or Saba Mahmood critique
basically runs as follws: we have these highly circumscribed ways of talking about important issues that privelege very limited types of agency while making other claims, grievances, agencies unintelligible. Usually these things work as binaries and those who work really hard to put forward third pole that is more sensible and detached are usually unseccessful. At least in the short term. More effort goes into asserting the rigidity of these binaries and their apparent naturalization than into elaborating the third pole which although probably correct is just as simple as the positions under critique. This is also the structure of most South Park episodes.
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