Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:18:03 -0600
From: Walt Stein <stein-AT-io.uwinnipeg.ca>
Subject: RE: Foucault and AIDS


Tatiana: go to www.salonmagazine.com, a terrific online magazine.  Look for
columnists and you can't miss her weekly column...they change their page a
lot, so I can't give you the specific url.  Better still, read her massive
Sexual Personae and enjoy.  Be prepared to grit your teeth a lot, but look
for stuff like this (not quite properly remembered?) "why are there no
female Michelangelos? For the same reason there are no female Jack the
Rippers."!

I will admit, however, that from time to time she really turns me around.
Although I know little of Emily Dickenson, I found the essay in sexual
personae to be quite extraordinary. No flames, please...I took it as an
essay, not an academic analysis.  And any book that finds serious
connections between Nefertete and Elizabeth Taylor can't be all bad.

As for motherhood...it's complicated. She has strong beliefs inherited from
Freud et al about Oedipus, Elektra, and infantile development and, being a
self-attributed radical lesbian (she came out at thirteen), she probably
believes that she and her partner raising a child would upset the order of
the universe. She's probably answered this question in her column, but I
can't recall for sure and I may very well be wrong about her attitude on
this matter.

Yours,
Walt


At 05:27 PM 12/23/98 +1100, you wrote:
>> - turn to her Salon column every week, and gawk at how
>>hideous she is, (but how cleverly she does it). Thankyou for sharing.
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>ooo where is this column? is this a news paper? 
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>Tatiana Tanya Doroshenko
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>tdor1-AT-student.monash.edu.au.
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