tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476321794883547115.post5694141168049516125..comments2023-12-31T08:47:38.867-06:00Comments on Girldrive: Chicago: LAURENGIRLdrivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691090052628234020noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476321794883547115.post-9524014781338394662008-06-13T13:23:00.000-05:002008-06-13T13:23:00.000-05:00from lberlantto nona200@gmail.com,emmabeebernstein...from lberlant<BR/>to nona200@gmail.com,<BR/>emmabeebernstein@gmail.com<BR/>date Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:28 PM<BR/>subject Re: blog entry!<BR/> <BR/>I was thinking this morning about whether I still believe what I said. Now I think I'd add that what some parts of feminism wanted to do, wants to do, is to expand the sensorium, the habituated affects, the world to which people's desire responds, so that the loss of control and expansion of boundaries that constitute sexuality and intimacy can take in new objects and kinds of people, scenes, and things. A training in the work of becoming unclenched and open still operates in tension with the intelligence and enhanced will that feminism also encourages women to build: but the work of rehardwiring the appetites requires work on both ends.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Good review of sex and the city too. I wish any of these women had even passed feminism on the sidewalk; then they would see sex as something one should talk to one's lovers about, not as something that goes without saying except in the domains of the longing and disappointment one reports to one's friends.<BR/><BR/>In solidarity, LB<BR/><BR/>Lauren Berlant<BR/>George M. Pullman Professor<BR/>Department of English<BR/>Chair, Lesbian and Gay Studies Project<BR/>Center for Gender StudiesGIRLdrivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04691090052628234020noreply@blogger.com