Sydney Ostermiller’s Reviews > Doing Feminist Theory: From Modernity to Postmodernity > Status Update

Queer theorist Judith Halberstam explained "'Queer Subjects'" as those who, '"live (deliberately, accidentally, or of necessity) during the hours when other sleep and in the spaces (physical, metaphysical, and economic) that others have abandoned,...[including] 'ravers, club kids, HIV-positive barebackers, rent boys, sex workers, homeless people, drug dealers, and the unemployed.'"

Foucault said, “…art has become something which is related only to objects, not to individuals or to life…but couldn’t everyone’s life become a work of art?…from the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.” And I said hell yeah

…”identity constructions always entail the silencing or exclusion of some differences.”

Production for exchange: Work outside of the home
Production for use: Labor directed toward immediate use or consumption rather than sale.
Margaret Benson sees this distinction as the structural basis of women's inequality in modern societies because, production for use is unpaid labor and provides no basis for women's economic independence.

Sisterhood is global

Sisterhood is powerful

From the redstockings manifesto, “We do not need to change ourselves, but to change men”

Beautiful is many

One of the earliest feminist statements, from Abigail to John Adams. "I desire you would Remember the Ladies and be more generous and favourable to them. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands...all Men would be tyrants if they could. If care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice"

In the year 1913, Rebecca West said, "'I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.'" And I said hell yeah