Gender Trouble im Paradies

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-246
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Lachmund
Keyword(s):  
Gender Trouble

The Gender Troubles of Feofan Prokopovich

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 198-228
Author(s):  
Gary Marker
Keyword(s):  
Sharp Contrast ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Dual Codes ◽  
Minimalist Approach ◽  
Holy Women ◽  
Gender Trouble

Abstract This essay constitutes a close reading of the works of Feofan Prokopovich that touch upon gender and womanhood. Interpretively it is informed by Judith Butler’s book Gender Trouble, specifically by her model of gender-as-performance. Prokopovich’s writings conveyed a negative characterization of holy women and Russian women of power, a combination of glaring silences and Scholastic dual codes that in toto denied the association of womanhood with glory or wisdom. In this he stood apart from other East Slavic Orthodox homilists of his day, even though they too invariably associated virtue with masculinity (muzhestvo). For Prokopovich, wisdom, strength, constancy, etc., were innately masculine. Women, by contrast, were weak, inconstant, non-rational, and guided by emotion. His sermons nominally in praise of Catherine I and Anna Ioannovna were suffused with narrative gestures that, to those attuned to the nuances of Scholastic rhetoric, ran entirely counter to their nominal message. Several panegyrics to Anna, for example, made no mention of her at all, a practice in sharp contrast to his sermons to male rulers, which typically placed the honoree firmly in the foreground. Even more startling is his singularly minimalist approach to Mary, for whom he composed almost no sermons and whose presence he barely mentioned in tracts where one would have expected otherwise. This essay concludes that this attitude reflected both his personal preferences and influence that Protestant Pietism had on his thinking.

Trans (gender) trouble

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-195
Author(s):  
Benny LeMaster ◽  
Megan Stephenson
Keyword(s):  
Gender Trouble

Empire Unmanned: Gender Trouble and Genoese Gold in Cervantes's “The Two Damsels”

PMLA ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 116 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-299
Author(s):  
Barbara Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Old World ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Gender Trouble

This reevaluation of Cervantes's novella “The Two Damsels” argues that the generic hallmarks of romance disguise a minute engagement with pressing social and political concerns. The cross-dressed damsels' search for their truant love, significantly named Marco Antonio, evinces the fraught connection between the vagaries of masculinity in Spain and the potency of Spain's empire. Transformed from romance pageboys to epic Amazons, the damsels champion domestic commitments over imperial concerns, even as they impersonate masculinity. Yet their profound disruption of the gendered social order and the text's insistent references to the literal bankruptcy of Spain's Old World empire cannot be contained by a successful romance resolution, even if Marco Antonio is successfully diverted from his imperial excursion.

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).

Judith Butler's Critique of Violence and the Legacy of Monique Wittig

Hypatia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 827-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanna Karhu
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Recent Criticism ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Monique Wittig ◽  
Military Violence ◽  
Gender Trouble ◽  
Critique Of Violence ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Although Judith Butler's theorization of violence has begun to receive growing scholarly attention, the feminist theoretical background of her notion of violence remains unexplored. In order to fill this lacuna, this article explicates the feminist genealogy of Butler's notion of violence. I argue that Butler's theorization of violence can be traced back to Gender Trouble, to her discussion of Monique Wittig's argument that the binary categorization of sex can be conceived as a form of discursive violence. I contend, first, that Butler starts to develop her notion of “gender violence” on the basis of her reading of Wittig, and second, that Butler's more recent writings on military violence and the ethics of nonviolence build on her early interpretation of Wittig. On the basis of my reading, I suggest, in contrast to recent criticism, that Butler's later critique of violence is not at odds with but rather expands upon her prior work on violence.

scholarly journals Grammatical Gender Trouble and Hungarian Gender[lessness]. Part I: Comparative Linguistic Gender

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 143-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise O. Vasvári
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Issue ◽  
Grammatical Gender ◽  
Romance Languages ◽  
Cultural Expectations ◽  
The World ◽  
Gender Trouble ◽  
Pronominal Gender

The aim of this study is to define linguistic gender[lessness], with particular reference in the latter part of the article to Hungarian, and to show why it is a feminist issue. I will discuss the [socio]linguistics of linguistic gender in three types of languages, those, like German and the Romance languages, among others, which possess grammatical gender, languages such as English, with only pronominal gender (sometimes misnamed ‘natural gender’), and languages such as Hungarian and other Finno-Ugric languages, as well as many other languages in the world, such as Turkish and Chinese, which have no linguistic or pronomial gender, but, like all languages, can make lexical gender distinctions. While in a narrow linguistic sense linguistic gender can be said to be afunctional, this does not take into account the ideological ramifications in gendered languages of the “leakage” between gender and sex[ism], while at the same time so-called genderless languages can express societal sexist assumptions linguistically through, for example, lexical gender, semantic derogation of women, and naming conventions. Thus, both languages with overt grammatical gender and those with gender-related asymmetries of a more covert nature show language to represent traditional cultural expectations, illustrating that linguistic gender is a feminist issue.

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