'Maggie Nelson slays entrenched notions of gender, marriage and sexuality with lyricism, intellectual brass and soul-ringing honesty.' Vanity Fair 'Nelson's writing is fluid-to read her story is to drift dreamily among her thoughts.She masterfully analyzes the way we talk about sex and gender.' Huffington Post 'One of the most intelligent, generous and moving books of the year.' STARRED review Publishers Weekly 'A book that will challenge readers as much as the author has challenged herself.' STARRED review Kirkus Reviews 'It might require a bit of work but The Argonauts rewards us with an expansive way of considering identity, caretaking, and freedom. She teaches in the School of Critical Studies at CalArts and lives in Los Angeles, California. Maggie Nelson is a poet, a critic, and the author of several nonfiction books, including The Red Parts, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, Bluets, and Jane: A Murder. Nelson's insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry for this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book. Writing in the spirit of public intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality, gender, and the vexed institutions of marriage and child-rearing. This story, which includes the author's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, is an intimate portrayal of the complexities and joys of (queer) family making. At its centre is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge.

'A superb exploration of the risk and the excitement of change.An exceptional portrait both of a romantic partnership and of the collaboration between Nelson's mind and heart.' New Yorker Winner, 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of 'autotheory' offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking about desire, identity and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2016 National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries

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