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Each of Juliet Mitchell’s texts has an iridescent quality that allows us, as time passes, to see both particular passages and our world differently. Part of this quality is the result of a core question that animates each of Mitchell’s books, and which keeps being reactivated by our concrete personal and political experiences even as circumstances are reconfigured: Why are inequalities between men and women so pervasive, even in movements that purport to be primarily concerned with equality? Mitchell has been described as a “conservative” by scholars such as Lynne Segal (2001) for even asking this question, since it seems to presume sexual difference as a single, natural, and immovable binary along reproductive lines (see also Grosz 1990; Chiland 2004). Yet in fact Mitchell’s interest has been to interrogate why genital and reproductive differences between human beings, which in themselves imply little at all about how our lives or our society should be structured, have been figured with a significance that allows them to support the entrenchment and naturalization of inequalities.
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Duschinsky, R. (2015). Dialectic and Dystopia: “This might come as a shock…”. In: Duschinsky, R., Walker, S. (eds) Juliet Mitchell and the Lateral Axis. Palgrave Macmillan’s Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137367792_6
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