num_pages: 118
description: Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocles's Oedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But what has remained unclear is whether she escapes from the forms of power that she opposes. 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 liveable life.
language: English
title: Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death
titlecomplete: Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death
genres: Academic, Gender, Essays, Mythology, Philosophy, Queer, Theory, Classics, Feminism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 607
publisher: Columbia University Press