The Argonauts

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An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and familyMaggie Nelson'sThe Argonautsis a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offerin g fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. It binds an account of Nelson's relationship with her partner and a journey to and through a pregnancy to a rigorous exploration of sexuality, gender, and "family." An insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry for this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book. Show more