genero de nuevo

yes, once again, i have a comment about that whole gender debate i can't get over.

but i was reading david harvey's The Body as an Accumulation Strategy (1998 Environment and Planning 16:401-421), which I fall more in love with every time I read, and came across a sentence I thought appropriate.

But first, to contextualize: Basically Harvey is saying that the body is not "finished" but is malleable in certain ways, both by external and internal forces. Following from this, the body has a dialectical relationship with the processes that "produce, sustain, bound, and ultimately dissolve it" (402). Basically, similar to the way Butler conceives of the body (as not existing outside of discourse) Harvey is saying the body is very connected to the socio-political formations in which it is embedded.

And then the kicker

"And the representational practices that operate in society likewise shape the body, making any challenge to dominant systems of representation, as, for example, by feminists and queer theorists in recent years, a direct challenge to bodily practices" (403).

ok, back to writing. just can't get enough of the cholas...