The Argonauts
About this book
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 artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes the author’s account of falling in love with Dodge, 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 like 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 childrearing. Nelson’s insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry for this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.
Subjects
- amerikanisches englisch
- authors
- autobiografische literatur
- biography & autobiography
- couples
- families
- familjer
- family
- författare
- gay parents
- gender
- gender identity
- genus
- graviditet
- hbtq-personer
- health equity
- kärlek
- könsidentiet
- lgbt
- lgbtq biography and memoir
- lgbtq gender identity
- lgbtq parenting
- lgbtq queer theory
- lgbtq studies
- life stories
- livsberättelser
- love
- maternal role
- minority health
- moderskap
- modersrollen
- motherhood
- narrative medicine
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:culture=2015-06-07
- parförhållanden
- poets, biography
- pregnancy
- queerterori
- queer theory
- sexual and gender minorities
- sexualitet
- sexuality
- sexual minorities
- sexual minorities' families
- social science
- transgender parents
- transgender people
- transgender persons