{"product_id":"the-argonauts-a-memoir-9781555977078","title":"The Argonauts: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love  language  and family Maggie Nelsons 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. At its center is a romance: the story of the authors relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story  which includes Nelsons account of falling in love with Dodge  who is fluidly gendered  as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy  offers a firsthand account of the complexities and joys of (queer) family-making. 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. Nelsons insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry of this thoughtful  unabashed  uncompromising book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45656567087157,"sku":"ByrdShop_1555977073","price":23.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781555977078.jpg?v=1781978284","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-argonauts-a-memoir-9781555977078","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}