Bodies That Still Matter

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
Key Topics ◽  
Gender Trouble

Since the appearance of her early-career bestseller Gender Trouble in 1990, American philosopher Judith Butler is one of the most influential (and at times controversial) thinkers in academia. Her work addresses numerous socially pertinent topics such as gender normativity, political speech, media representations of war, and the democratic power of assembling bodies. The volume Bodies That Still Matter: Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler brings together essays from scholars across academic disciplines who apply, reflect on, and further Butler's ideas to their own research. It includes a new essay by Butler herself, from which it takes its title. Organized around four key themes in Butler's scholarship - performativity, speech, precarity, and assembly - the volume offers an excellent introduction to the contemporary relevance of Butler's thinking, a multi-perspectival approach to key topics of contemporary critical theory, and a testimony to the vibrant interdisciplinary discourses characterizing much of today's humanities' research.

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).

Crystalline Imperfections: Key Topics in Materials Science and Engineering

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yip-Wah Chung
Keyword(s):  
Materials Science ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Physical Metallurgy ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Materials Science And Engineering ◽  
Key Topics ◽  
Structural Imperfections ◽  
Real World Problems

Crystalline Imperfections: Key Topics in Materials Science and Engineering deals with the practical aspects of compositional and structural imperfections, how they are controlled, and how they influence material properties and behaviors. The book is organized into two sections, the first of which is a tutorial on compositional impurities and different types of crystal lattice defects. The section that follows, the focal point of the book, furthers the learning process by guiding readers through a series of real-world problems and their respective solutions. The content of this book and its presentation format are particularly well suited for early-career engineers who would like to sharpen their understanding of physical metallurgy and its application in design and manufacturing.

Ethics without Normativity and Politics without Historicity

2018 ◽  
pp. 80-100
Author(s):  
Seyla Benhabib
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
The City

This chapter talks about how the announcement that Judith Butler was awarded the Adorno Prize of the city of Frankfurt led to an intense controversy that engulfed officials of the German-Jewish and Israeli communities, members of academia, journalists, and public intellectuals. At issue was whether, given her support of the Israel Global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS), Butler should have been honored in the name of a Jewish-German refugee and one of the revered founders of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. Nonetheless, Butler's achievement is to retrieve ethical imperatives toward a vision of cohabitation by reviving Jewish memories of exile and persecution, in that she reexamines long-forgotten distinctions between cultural and political Zionism.

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.

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