Antigone's Claim

"Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocle's Oedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But what has remained unclear is whether she escapes from the forms of power that she opposes. Antigone proves to be a more ambivalent figure for feminism than has been acknowledged, since the form of defiance she exemplifies also leads to her death. Butler argues that Antigone represents a form of feminist and sexual agency that is fraught with risk. Moreover, Antignone shows how the constraints of normative kinship unfairly decide what will and will not be a liveable life."--BOOK JACKET.

First sentence: I began to think about Antigone a few years ago as I wondered what happened to those feminist efforts to confront and defy the state.

Year

2000

Language

English

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Editions

3

Pages

112

ISBN

9780231118958

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