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Running Time: 04:48 hrsNarrator: Maggie NelsonPublisher:Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Buck 50 Productions, LLC, 2015Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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Publisher:Graywolf Press, 2015Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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Certified Accessible By: National Network for Equitable Library ServiceRunning Time: 04:48 hrsNarrator: Maggie NelsonPublisher:BC Libraries Cooperative, 2023Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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- Author: Nelson, MaggieEdition: UnabridgedDate:Created2015Summary:
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family 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. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. 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. 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. Nelson's insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry of this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.
Subject(s): Families | Nelson, Maggie, 1973 | Sexual minorities' families | United States | Women authors, American | Women authors--Relations with menOriginal Publisher: Ashland, Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Buck 50 Productions, LLCLanguage(s): EnglishISBN: 9781504660778
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