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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; ">Often called “The most famous feminist philosopher in the United States”, Judith Butler is the author of <i><u>Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity</u></i><u> (1990).<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 25px; "><span style="line-height: 20px; ">I believe </span><span style="line-height: 24px; ">she</span><span style="line-height: 20px; "> is deserving of a Bulwer-Lytton award for such exhausting sentences
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<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 25px; "><span style="line-height: 20px; "><i>"The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony
in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects
to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power."</i></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 25px; "><span style="line-height: 20px; ">She also is known for succinct sentences, such as: <i>"I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic."<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<div><span style="line-height: 20px; ">The friend who sent me </span><span style="line-height: 20px; ">this</span><span style="line-height: 20px; "> went on to comment:</span></div>
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<div>Reflecting on the first sentence, I wish I was smarter. On the second, I wish I was laughing more frequently.</div>
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Which might be a contender for the best laugh I've had in a while. (Yeah, I wish I were laughing more frequently too, but maybe that's TMI.)
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