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Commonalities. First printing. Translation by Catherine Porter of "Le grand théâtre du genre : identités, sexualités et féminisme en "Amérique"" (Belin, 2013). Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. 228 pages."At a time when gender and queer theories appear to its American proponents to have exhausted themselves, they are hailed in France as something new. Yet, more than any area of late 20th-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. The author uses this particular temporal and intellectual juncture to look again at a certain history and theory of gender and sexuality. The book is divided into three parts. The first part deals with one of the thorniest conundrums of late 20th-century feminist theory and politics, namely, the question of the veil. It includes Berger's by now classical essay on the "Islamic Veil" and the politics of specularity.… Read More
