host me‚ Melody Emm! Today we have a very special guest with us‚ praised American philosopher and gender theorist‚ Dr. Judith Butler everybody. So Ms. Butler‚ May I call you Judith? I’m so honored to have you on my show. Butler: Of course you can‚ and the pleasure is mine really. Me: So Judith why don’t you tell our audience a little about your career as a queer theorist? Butler: I’d be happy to. My work in queer theory mostly focuses on feminism and gender institutions. My most notable books include
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In 1990‚ both Eve Sedgwick (Epistemology of the Closet) and Judith Butler (Gender Trouble) made significant contributions to the ever burgeoning field of queer studies with theories about sexuality as performance. Following the central Foucauldian thread in which sexual conduct is but a construct specific to one’s cultural context and a factor of historical and cultural connotations‚ queer theorists proposed gender as a socially and culturally constructed performance. The performance of gender is
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The response paper Youngil Hong The Psychic Life of Power- Judith Butler Butler surveys the ideas of Hegel‚ Althusser‚ and Foucault around subject formation‚ interrogating how power produces its subject and how that subject comes to perceive itself as one. Butler understands power as forming the subject and as providing the very condition of its existence. I believe that her basic idea is that the subjects become attached to the conditions of their own subjectivity even if these conditions
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the role of gender does in society are countless in number‚ but Judith Butlers is widely known for the aspect of how gender and performativity coincide with one another. In her theory she talks about how the role of gender is defined by what society wants it to be and not what a person is actually. Butler also talks about how these roles are recurring in society because of the performativity aspect of gender. These roles are what Butler wants to break away from and she goes as far as to connect her
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Notes: Judith Butler – Gender Trouble PREFACE (1999) Gender Trouble has been received as a “provocative ‘intervention’ in feminist theory” and as a “founding text of queer theory.” “In 1989 I was most concerned to criticize a pervasive heterosexual assumption in feminist literary theory. I sought to counter those views that made presumptions about the limits and propriety of gender and restricted the meaning of gender to received notions of masculinity and femininity. It was and remains
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or break the piece. Though these are only condiments to help enhance the flavor of the content; they play an extremely crucial role in preventing the piece from turning bland. Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is no less of a performance art; her language and use of quotations acting as props to the stage. In her book‚ Butler reinforces the belief
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celebrating? In “Imitation and Gender Insubordination”‚ Judith Butler explores what it really means to come out and claim an identity. Although Butler acknowledges the importance of coming out for purposes of personal affirmation and community organization‚ she is ultimately skeptical in the coming out process because it means conforming to the discourses of oppressive powers and because the meaning of the identities themselves are ambiguous. Butler recognizes that coming out can be advantageous for many
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Tylencia Harvey Ms.Bowser English 1101/MWF 12 October 18‚2012 A Question for Philosophers In Judith Butler’s essay Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy she discusses sexuality and what actually makes a world livable. Judith is a gay rights activist and doesn’t believe that your gender is not who you are skin deep‚ but it is who you define yourself as. The world can be livable to some people‚ but not all. The world is harsh‚ and cruel‚ but the only reason it is like this is
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“Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy” By Judith Butler Based on your reading of the selection “Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy‚” answer the following questions. Place the page number (s) and paragraph (s) to each answer. 1. What are the questions that Judith Butler would seek answers in this essay from beginning to the end of essay? - Answer: What makes for grievable life? pg. 114‚ 1st paragraph 2. What does loss indicate for the human? -Answer: That if we’ve
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Question 1- Panopticism In regards to Panopticism‚ Michel Foucault theorizes‚ “The exile of the leper and the arrest of the plague do not bring with them the same political dream.” I conclude that the term‚ “political dream”‚ is an idea where people use power and knowledge in an attempt to achieve a perfectly governed society. Gradually‚ social reforms transformed how the political dream was viewed. Over the past few hundred years‚ techniques for social reform have improved‚ leading up to where
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