Antigones claim kinship between life death kinship between life and death wellek library lectures butler judith isbn 9780231118941 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Antigone proves to be a more ambivalent figure for feminism than has been acknowledged since the form of defiance she exemplifies also leads to her death butler argues that antigone represents a form of feminist and sexual agency that is fraught with risk moreover antigone shows how the constraints of normative kinship unfairly decide what will and will not be a livable life. Therefore unlike french women claiming a place in a nation states political structure antigone must and does claim a place which is no place meaning that she claims death as her legitimate space and her presence within state and kinship networks intrudes death into those networks. Antigone proves to be a more ambivalent figure for feminism than has been acknowledged since the form of defiance she exemplifies also leads to her death butler argues that antigone represents a form of feminist and sexual agency that is fraught with risk moreover antigone shows how the constraints of normative kinship unfairly decide what will and will not be a livable lifebutler