STUDENTS' RESPONSES TO EVE SEDGWICK
In Axiom 1, Sedgwick notes the classification and generalization of the human race into relatively few categories and laments the general disregard for individual differences. Later, however, she concedes that deconstruction, in its embrace, celebration, and hyperdriven invocation of difference and uncertainty runs the risk of . . . paralyzing any faculty to effectively make sense of actual real-world differences. (J. P. Mohan)
What is Sedgwick trying to achieve by corollizing sexuality into axioms? Is her mathematical approach to the subject meant to be tongue-in-cheek? This essay tackles so much at once, I almost feel that she should have written an introduction to her introduction. (J. P. Mohan)
Reading Sedgwick, I really came to understand that the simple issue of words--and the objects or things or concepts that they directly or subconsciously or in whatever way imply--are the basic problem we face. (Natasha Breen)
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