Andrew ShieldsAug 5, 2025
In Judith Butler’s “Who’s Afraid of Gender?”, an echo of Adrienne Rich’s “Twenty-One Love Poems”. #111Words #JudithButler #WhosAfraidOfGender #AdrienneRich #TwentyOneLovePoems #TheDreamOfACommonLanguage https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-judith-butlers-whos-afraid-of-gender.html
In Judith Butler’s “Who’s Afraid of Gender?”, an echo of Adrienne Rich’s “Twenty-One Love Poems"

In "Who's Afraid of Gender?" (2024), Judith Butler  wonders if   " [a] gainst the passion for authoriarianism we could perhaps pose another ...

Show threadAndrew ShieldsJun 7, 2023

@gastarbajterica “Twenty-One Love Poems” is such an amazing sequence! We discussed the passage with the dog in my seminar on Rich in Spring 2021 (all on Zoom then …).

Here are two posts of mine about other moments in the sequence:

https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2021/03/no-one-has-imagined-us-lesbian-couple.html

https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2021/03/philoctetes-in-womans-form-andre-gide.html

#Poetry #AdrienneRich #TwentyOneLovePoems #TheDreamOfACommonLanguage #AndreGide #Philoctetes

"No one has imagined us": A lesbian couple and the representation of women in pornography in Adrienne Rich's "Twenty-One Love Poems"

Adrienne Rich's "Twenty-One Love Poems" (1976) depicts two women in a lesbian relationship who feel the absence of the representation of les...