scholarly journals Home-Space and Politics of Gender in Housekeeping

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1318-1322
Author(s):  
Yi Hu
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Social Convention ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Spatial Order ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Home Space

Focusing on female characters of Foster family, Marilynne Robinson’s debut novel Housekeeping presents a tension between stability and mobility within the home-space, and in terms of a fixed, bounded gender identity ascribed by domesticity and social convention with a fluid, non-essential one. Drawing on critical theories of Judith Butler, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Tim Cresswell, etc., this paper attempts to analyze how the protagonist Sylvie successfully subverts normative politics of gender by redefining the spatial order of home-space and conducting spatial practices.

“I hunt. He bakes.”: Constructing and Deconstructing Gender Identity in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games Trilogy

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Rakchuda Thibordee
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Gender Performativity ◽  
Hunger Games ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
The Hunger Games ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Katniss Everdeen

This article aims to investigate the construction of the gender identity of the young-adult female protagonist in The Hunger Games trilogy. Through the lens of Judith Butler’s gender performativity, both male and female characters in the trilogy manifest different perspectives of masculinity and femininity through the deconstruction of the gender binary. Similar to the muttation of the mockingjays, the female protagonist hybridizes masculinity and femininity. Katniss Everdeen embraces both masculine and feminine attributes simultaneously, and this adoption promotes an alternative way of performing gender. Gender, hence, becomes a choice for characters to perform to present themselves. In this regard, Judith Butler’s gender performativity is applied to analyze Katniss’s gender identity that deconstructs the ideologies of the traditional gender binary. The adoption of gender performativity may encourage awareness and empowerment of gender equality in the trilogy.

scholarly journals Foucault's Turn From Phenomenology: Implications for Dance Studies

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Ann Ness
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Dance Studies

No critic of phenomenology, arguably, has been more influential in prefiguring recent discourses on power, gender, and sexuality that have emerged in dance studies in recent decades than the philosopher-historian-critic Michel Foucault. The number of dance scholars directly citing Foucault, and the number influenced indirectly by his ideas through intermediary theorists such as Judith Butler—perhaps the single most popular one—is so large as to require an essay of its own just to survey. Virtually every analysis of choreographic practice that has addressed these topics since the 1980s has drawn directly or indirectly on Foucault's theories. Indeed, the very mention of the term “discipline” in current dance scholarship (and many related fields as well) more or less automatically makes reference to Foucault's genealogical study of incarceration,Surveiller et punir. Naissance de la prison, translated into English asDiscipline and Punish: Birth of the Prison, and, in particular to the chapter, “Les corps dociles” or “Docile Bodies” (Foucault 1975, 137–171; 1975/1995, 135–170).

scholarly journals Memória de um tempo presente sobre o amor animal

Question ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (64) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cassiana Lopes Stephan
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Judith Butler

No presente ensaio, tentaremos entender em que medida a tradição filosófica galgada no princípio de igualdade, atrelado à noção de natureza humana, teria paulatinamente conduzido à justificação e, até mesmo, à fundamentação da desconsideração ético-política do animal e da animalidade. Mais precisamente, a partir de uma perspectiva que interpreta os estudos de Michel Foucault acerca do cuidado de si no período socrático-platônico, sob a luz [A] das análises de Jean-Pierre Vernant no que concerne às diferenças entre a Antiguidade arcaica e a clássica e [B] das reflexões de Judith Butler a propósito da violência moral, indicaremos de que modo a emergência filosófica do princípio de igualdade teria influenciado na estruturação de uma dinâmica moralista que violenta explícita ou implicitamente o animal e, com ele, todos e todas que se distinguem biológica ou eticamente das normas que descrevem o ser humano e que prescrevem a sua humanidade. O nosso artigo é constituído por quatro partes que marcam a temporalidade da questão animal e que manifestam sua urgência no presente histórico. Através da narração de possíveis articulações entre o presente e o passado, buscamos diagnosticar os limites antropocêntricos da filosofia ético-política e, ao mesmo tempo, vislumbrar relações não-antropocêntricas entre humanos e animais. 

scholarly journals Konstytucjonalizm wobec „zemsty postmodernizmu”

2017 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Adam Sulikowski
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Future Evolution ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Ernesto Laclau ◽  
Constitutional Discourse

CONSTITUTIONALISM AND THE „REVENGE OF POSTMODERNISM”The main purpose of this article is to discuss the current situation of constitutional discourse as aresult of „Revenge of postmodernism”. This „Revenge” shows itself in taking over the methods of the leftist critique of democratic institutions by the radical right. This „Barbarization” of subtle methods of left-wing criticism leads to far-reaching consequences unforeseen by its founding fathers — Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida or Judith Butler. The author, using various theories formulated by Chantal Mouffe, Ernesto Laclau and Artur Kozak, seeks to explain this phenomenon and to show its implications for the future evolution of the constitutional discourse.

scholarly journals A reinvenção da deficiência: novas metáforas na natureza dos corpos

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 264-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Sena Martins
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Judith Butler

Resumo O conceito de deficiência tem sido profundamente contestado nas últimas décadas, tanto política como epistemologicamente. Por um lado, está em causa o reconhecimento de que a filiação de determinadas diferenças sob a noção de deficiência constitui uma recente “invenção” da modernidade ocidental. Por outro, trata-se de pulsar as consequências dessa construção para as pessoas marcadas pelo estigma da deficiência. Estabelecendo um diálogo com importantes contribuições da teoria crítica, recrutando noções como “páticas de separação” (Michel Foucault), “materialização” (Judith Butler), “corpo múltiplo” (Annemarie Mol) e “sociologia das ausências” (Boaventura de Santos), o presente artigo procura entender como a noção de deficiência pode ser desmobilizada por leituras insurgentes das hierarquias da modernidade.

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.

scholarly journals La «pierre noire» et la «bulle de savon». Reflexions sur le corps au xxie siecle

Daímon ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Jean-François Braunstein
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Ian Hacking

<p><span>Michel Foucault ha transformado nuestra visión del cuerpo. Así como Judith Butler, muchos han querido hallar en él la idea de que “los cuerpos son construidos”. La utopía queer o la extraña enfermedad mental de la amputomanía dan cuenta de dicha desmaterialización del cuerpo. Foucault soñaba efectivamente con un cuerpo “pompa de jabón”. Esta visión “neo-dualista”, muy bien descrita por Ian Hacking, puede llevar hasta un gnosticismo despectivo por la “carne” insignificante que es nuestro cuerpo. Pero para Foucault, en <em>El nacimiento de la clínica</em>, el cuerpo es también una “piedra negra”, opaca e impenetrable. Las reflexiones de Canguilhem o la pintura de Bacon nos permiten superar manifiestamente la brutal oposición entre un “cuerpo espiritual”, enteramente construido”, y un “cuerpo material”, simplemente dado.</span></p>

Somatechnologies

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Lettow ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Politics ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Technological Means ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Body Technologies

Until now, the body has played only a minor role in the philosophy of technology. However, more elaborate reflections on the relation between technology and the body are needed because of the advent of somatechnologies – technologies intentionally geared toward modifying bodies and that use bodily substances as technological means. The article discusses some approaches within the philosophy of technology that prove to be fruitful in this context. The article argues thatsomatechnical modifications of bodies should be understood as elements of ‘body technologies’ and body politics in a broader sense. In such a perspective, concepts of the body developed by Judith Butler and Michel Foucault should be adopted by a praxeological philosophy of technology.

Sexuality and Gender Identity: From a Discursive to a Relational Analysis

1998 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Burkitt
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Relational Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Discursive Constructions

This paper concentrates on the recent controversy over the division between sex and gender and the troubling of the binary distinctions between gender identities and sexualities, such as man and woman, heterosexual and homosexual. While supporting the troubling of such categories, I argue against the approach of Judith Butler which claims that these dualities are primarily discursive constructions that can be regarded as fictions. Instead, I trace the emergence of such categories to changing forms of power relations in a more sociological reading of Foucault's conceptualization of power, and argue that the social formation of identity has to be understood as emergent within socio-historical relations. I then consider what implications this has for a politics based in notions of identity centred on questions of sexuality and gender.

Tongues as a Site of Subversion

Pneuma ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaputra Tupamahu
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Speaking In Tongues ◽  
International Language ◽  
Politics Of Language ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Jakobson ◽  
A Site ◽  
Cultural Theorist

In this article I discuss the close relationship between colonialism and the expansion of language. Language is always politically contested. A language can become an international language today because it has a long history of colonization and subjugation of other groups of people. I analyze the sociopolitical dimension of tongues by engaging, among others, linguist Roman Jakobson, philosopher Michel Foucault, and cultural theorist Judith Butler. By placing tongues in the context of the politics of language, I aim to show that the practice of speaking in tongues can be viewed as a strategic subversion and disruption of the regime of normalized language.

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