Finding Feminist Resistance: Brown and Butler on the Feminist Subject
Abstract
Jean-Marie is an English teacher in her mid-twenties living in Plano, Texas. Still paying off her student loans, she claims that easily accessible and affordable contraception has been instrumental in her ability to plan her education and career timeline. In a short letter to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, she thanks the organization for providing her, and many young women (and men) with information and access to contraception, when there was no other source available to provide such services. Unfortunately, Jean-Marie's own students will not benefit from this service: the Texas state government has just introduced a bill to ban "any entity or individual affiliated with an abortion provider from providing sex education instruction or materials" (davidwalls). This bill will essentially ban Planned Parenthood, the biggest provider of healthcare for women in Texas, from providing information to high school students on reproductive health.
Subject Area
Political science
Recommended Citation
LoTempio, Christina Frances, "Finding Feminist Resistance: Brown and Butler on the Feminist Subject" (2013). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI13853367.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI13853367
