Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990)

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-16
Author(s):  
Herb Wyile
Keyword(s):  
Judith Butler ◽  
Gender Trouble

Judith Butler

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Distelhorst
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Gender Trouble

Judith Butler, eine der bekanntesten US-amerikanischen Intellektuellen und Querdenkerin der feministischen Wissenschaft, hat die "Gender Studies" nachhaltig beeinflusst. Ihre frühen Schriften "Gender Trouble" und "Bodies that Matter" waren Initialfunke für die Etablierung deutschsprachiger akademischer Geschlechterstudien. Diese schillernde Persönlichkeit und ihre vielfältigen provokanten Theoriepositionen stellt dieser UTB-Band vor.

The Inherent Link between Gender and Sexuality: A Queer View to the Portrayal of Women in Herland, Things Fall Apart, Bombay Brides, and The Winner Stands Alone

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-22
Author(s):  
Suparna Roy
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Helene Cixous ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
Things Fall Apart ◽  
Gender Trouble

Stevie Jackson and Jackie Jones regarded in her article- Contemporary Feminist Theory that “The concepts of gender and sexuality as a highly ambiguous term, as a point of reference” (Jackson, 131, ch-10). Gender and Sexuality are two most complexly designed, culturally constructed and ambiguously interrelated terms used within the spectrum of Feminism that considers “sex” as an operative term to theorize its deconstructive cultural perspectives. Helene Cixous notes in Laugh of Medusa that men and women enter the symbolic order in a different way and the subject position open to either sex is different. Cixious’s understanding that the centre of the symbolic order is ‘phallus’ and everybody surrounding it stands in the periphery makes women (without intersectionality) as the victim of this phallocentric society. One needs to stop thinking Gender as inherently linked to one’s sex and that it is natural. To say, nothing is natural. The body is just a word (as Judith Butler said in her book Gender Trouble [1990]) that is strategically used under artificial rules for the convenience of ‘power’ to operate. It has been a “norm” to connect one’s sexuality with their Gender and establish that as “naturally built”. The dichotomy of ‘penis/vagina’ over years has linked itself to make/female understanding of bodies. Therefore my main argument in this paper is to draw few instances from some literary works which over time reflected how the gender- female/women characters are made to couple up with a male/man presenting the inherent, coherent compulsory relation between one’s gender and sexuality obliterating any possibility of ‘queer’ relationships, includes- Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915), Bombay Brides (2018) by Esther David, Paulo Coelho’s Winner Stands Alone (2008) and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall apart (1958).

scholarly journals Navigating Gendered Space with Special Reference to Lil Bahadur Chettri’s Mountains Painted with Turmeric

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 149-160
Author(s):  
Tamishra Swain ◽  
Shalini Shah
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Gendered Space ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Gender Trouble

It is rightly put by the French philosopher Simone De Beauvoir in her book ‘Second Sex’ that “one is not born but made a woman”. So, women are treated secondary as compared to men for a long time. Similar view has been propounded by Judith Butler in her book ‘Gender Trouble’ that female identity has been created by repetitive performances and further, gender identity is not fixed rather it is created. There are certain agencies through which these ideologies came in to function. One of such agencies is “space” which is not necessarily physical and fixed but can be mental/psychological and fluid. This space can also use as subversive technique to control certain part of the society. This paper tries to analyze a Nepali fiction ‘Mountains Painted with Turmeric’ by Lil Bahadur Chettri to understand the subversive practices of space and how it controls gender identity.

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Stable Category ◽  
Gender Trouble

This chapter discusses Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble (GT) and its legacy in political theory. It sets out five themes of GT: the claim that identity is always the result of power; the interplay between sex, gender, and desire; the critique of “identity politics,” including any feminism that posits a stable category of “women”; the concept of performativity; and the possibility of change via subversive performance. The chapter then goes on to discuss the major impact that GT has had on feminist theory, queer theory, trans theory, and intersectionality, along with the surprising lack of impact on theories of multiculturalism and identity theory more broadly. Finally the chapter discusses some main criticisms of the book.

scholarly journals Assujettissement et subversion dans le langage. Judith Butler et la critique foucaldienne de la souveraineté

Phantasia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Benoit
Keyword(s):  
Judith Butler ◽  
Gender Trouble

L’article montre comment la féministe américaine Judith Butler importe, dans le champ du langage, la critique adressée par Foucault en 1976 aux représentations normatives du pouvoir politique, selon le schème juridique d’un pouvoir souverain s’exerçant de haut en bas sur le corps social, comme l’âme gouverne le corps. La critique butlerienne du sexe (Gender Trouble, 1990) est ainsi mise en lumière par l’analyse ultérieure qu’elle propose de la force subversive des mots, qui renouvelle la performativité austinienne, à l’aide de la compréhension althussérienne de l’assujettissement idéologique (Excitable Speech, 1997).

La interpretación del género en El vampiro de la colonia Roma

2018 ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
John Evar Strid
Keyword(s):  
Judith Butler ◽  
Luis Zapata ◽  
Gender Trouble

Muchos críticos han considerado las influencias que tuvo Luis Zapata al escribir Elvampiro de la colonia Roma (1979), tales como el género picaresco, el naturalismo y el beat norteamericano, pero ninguno ha examinado los enlaces que la novela tiene con la teoría de diferencia sexual. Por esta razón, este ensayo toma los principios desarrollados por Judith Butler en su libro Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) y los aplica a la novela de Zapata. Varios aspectos de la novela tienen correspondencia con la teoría de Butler en relación a la característica performativa del género, pues en ella varios personajes interpretan papeles en sus representaciones de género. Esta relación con la teoría de Butler es lógica porque Zapata se inspiró también en la comunidad homosexual cuando escribió la novela, aunque once años antes de las ideas propuestas por la teórica estadounidense.

scholarly journals Performativity and Performance

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moya Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Gender Performativity ◽  
Catharine Mackinnon ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Gender Trouble

This chapter explores the concepts of performativity and performance in feminist theory. It begins by examining the idea of gender performativity in the work of Judith Butler, tracing its development from her earliest writings through Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter, and showing how Butler’s initial argument draws from phenomenology and from performance studies (where acts are understood in theatrical terms). This is followed by a discussion of gender understood ethnomethodologically as a type of routine performance or form of “doing.” The second half of the chapter focuses on linguistic theories of performativity, derived from J. L. Austin and Jacques Derrida, and how they have been used by feminists, such as Catharine MacKinnon, Rae Langton, and Judith Butler, to illustrate pornography and hate speech. After a discussion of the performativity of pornography, the focus turns to citationality, resignification, and “talking back.”

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