1. Another possible allusion is
to Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825), an
important precursor to
socialism whose writings on feminism
were
recognized by a segment of
the French women's movement calling
themselves
_les
saint-simoniennes_.
2. Other political
commentaries likely to be well-received by
Acker's
admirers include her advocacy
of the poor and disenfranchised, her
scathing portrayals of
literary critics who valorize The Great
Tradition,
and her condemnations of
crude sexism throughout the text.
3. In her discussion of
_Paris is Burning_ (in _Bodies that
Matter_),
Butler recognizes the drag
performances as " "an appropriation that
seeks
to make over the terms of
domination, a making over which is itself a
kind
of agency, a power in and as
discourse," but seems uninterested that
each
performance achieves its
(limited) success in the actual world whether
or
not it does so within the
psyches of the drag performers. In this
discussion she makes no
distinction between bringing into the open
genders
and desires that transgress
mainstream norms and secretly feeling
differently than the
mainstream.
4. Halperin provides this
translation from an interview with Foucault
by
Jean Le Bitoux et al:. "De
lamiti comme mode de vie: Un Entretien avec
un
lecteur quinquagnaire." _Le
Gai Pied_ 25 (April 1981); 39, qtd. in
Halperin 81.
5. See Arthur Redding for an
excellent discussion of the
distinctions
Acker makes elsewhere between
the naturalizing approximation of an
ideal
femininity though dieting and
the "pointedly artificial masochistic"
creation of a new self
through body-building (289).
