Judith Butler‚ author of “Gender Trouble”‚ postulates that the gender roles we know today are not core realities and are constructed by society. Essentially‚ if these roles are abandoned by everyone in a society‚ gender as we know it will no longer exist. Using
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Butler (1990) argued that society’s perceived need to assign a sex to intersex infants is due to cultural fears‚ believes about gender binaries‚ and fear of difference. In the 1950s and 1960s the sexologist John Money carried out research on intersex infants
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We All Have Voices Men and women are both humans‚ but they’re not the same. They communicate in extremely opposite ways‚ and don’t always comprehend each other. The problem in between male and female communication is that the men are more directly and women re more complex and emotional than men. In “ His politeness is her powerlessness” by Deborah Tannen‚ an american academic wrote‚ “ The women does not feel she has the right to ask directly.” (50). This is saying that in today’s society women
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The concept of sexuality‚ what is socially accepted‚ what is ’natural ’‚ what is prescribed by religion‚ what is deemed deviant has been a form of social analysis‚ controversy‚ political debate and a measure of human progress. For what was considered the least talked about issue in society‚ sexuality was in many ways what defined the individual‚ their society‚ culture and the legal and moral laws that presided within it. The controllers of power were white‚ middle class‚ heterosexual men. If one
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deal of inquiries into the “Western” society were attempted by other disciplines‚ including but not limited to sociology‚ political science and philosophy. In this paper‚ building on Gayle Rubin’s essay “The Traffic in Women” and on the chapter from Judith Butler’s book “Undoing Gender” titled “Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual?”‚ I will briefly explore the category of kinship‚ its relation and significance for the contemporary societies. Trying to envision “genderless but not sexless society”
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Utopia and Gender: Short reflection on Queer(ing) Hetero-normativity ‘I think that when the unreal lays claim to reality‚ or enters into its domain‚ something other than a simple assimilation into prevailing norms can and does take place.’ (Butler‚ 2004‚ p.27) ‘The queer is the taboo-breaker‚ the monstrous‚ the uncanny.’ (Castle‚ 1995‚ p.383) Raphael‚ a well travelled and enlightened sailor‚ is the main protagonist in Thomas Moore’s Utopia. In Raphael’s opinion‚ Utopia was the only commonwealth
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5 Discipline and Punish A L A N D. S C H R I F T Michel Foucault published Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison in February 1975 in the Éditions Gallimard series “Bibliothèque des Histoires.” It was his first major work since The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) and the first since his election to the Chair in the History of Systems of Thought at the Collège de France in 1970. When it appeared‚ it confirmed Foucault’s position as a major force on the French intellectual scene and to
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In light of a multitude of minority deaths at the hands of police officers in America‚ a new movement has sprung up: Black Lives Matter‚ and with it comes controversy. Some individuals view this political movement as disregarding other lives. Thus‚ the term “all lives matter” has become a phrase used by those opposed to this group. However‚ the phrase‚ “all lives matter” is problematic because it pushes aside the issues people of color face everyday with police and diminishes the meaning of the
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References: 36 Burrell‚ Gibson (1992) 40 Gordon‚ Colin (1991) ‘Governmental rationality: An introduction’ in The Foucault Effect: Studies of Governmentality‚ G 41 Hearn‚ Jeff and Wendy Parkin (1995) 44 Ranson‚ Stewart‚ Bob Hinings and Royston Greenwood (1980) ‘The Structuring of Organizational Structures’‚ Administrative Science Quarterly‚ 25(1): 1-17
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of the game which involved a human (of any gender) and a computer on the side. The judge’s main goal is to decide which contestant is human and which is the machine (Peters 235). Peters connects the Turning Test to Judith Butler claiming that this game is an example of what Judith butler would call gender trouble. Within the game‚ the idea of gender seems more prominent than the actual difference between a machine and a
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