Chapters 1-7

Athanasiou's discussion of having vs. not having in relation to having or not having a phallus. Butler and Athanasiou go on in the chapter to address lines of division within a group made up of females and males. Mostly, this reminded me of the division that occurs in Mackinnon's article. On the first day, according to page 87 of her article, dominance is achieved by a group. In the second day, the dominant group provides a division, or a structured having vs. not having system where the group that lacks the "having" is the submissive. The discussion Athanasiou and Butler have in chapter 4                          reminds me of these stages.
Chapter six of the book reminded me greatly of Young' fives faces of oppression and Tuana's taxonomy of the epistemology of ignorance. The line "when the 'self' who struggles for recognition and self-recognition has been violently mis-recognized, constituted as radically or uncannily unfamiliar by a recognizable self-same human," is reminiscent of four of Young's faces of oppression (65-66). In this, we see violence, powerlessness, imperialism, and marginalization of the smaller group. By this same logic, we can see how Tuana's epistemology of ignorance is then tied into the faces of oppression.