5/30/2023 0 Comments The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson![]() ![]() ![]() If I could go back, I would definitely rather read the print version than listen to the audiobook. Would you consider the audio edition of The Argonauts to be better than the print version? Intelligent Stream of Thought on Gender &Sexuality Nelson's insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry of this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book. ![]() Writing in the spirit of public intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality, gender, and the vexed institutions of marriage and child-rearing. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, is an intimate portrayal of the complexities and joys of (queer) family making. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. ![]() Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. National Book Critics Circle Award winner, Criticism, 2015.Īn intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family. ![]()
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