Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction

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Summary: Essential theory
Review: Teresa de Lauretis is possibly _the_ most quoted gender theorist after Foucault. Arguments in this book have been taken up by the likes of Judith Butler, Michael Warner, and Judith Halberstam.

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Summary: teresa rules!
Review: This is a brilliant book, beautifully written and critically engaged in contemporary debates on gender theory and philosophy. Judith Butler may have reached stardom with Gender Trouble, but you will find many of her ideas in this earlier work of de Lauretis. Especially the first chapter is essential reading for anyone entering the field of gender theory, and, above all: de Lauretis' discursive style makes a lot more sense than Butler's!