About this title: In "Bodies That Matter," Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in "Gender" "Trouble," Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain "sex" from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She offers a clarification of the notion of "performativity" introduced in "Gender ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis(Routledge)
Date Published: 1993
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Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. Preface acknowledgements part i: i bodies that matter ii the lesbian phallus and the morphological imaginary iii phantasmatic identification and the assumption of sex iv gender is burning: questions of appropriation and subversion part ii: v 'dangerous crossing': willa cather's masculine names vi queering, passing: nella larsen rewrites psychoanalysis vi arguing with the real viii critically queerin bodies that matter, judith butler further develops her distinctive theory ... read more
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Date Published: 1993
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Date Published: 1993
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Description: New. The author of "Gender Trouble" further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most material dimensions of sex and sexuality. Butler examines how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the matter of bodie... read more
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Date Published: 1993
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Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 1993-10-01
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"What I learned: Reading Judith Butler in three days because you are under deadline does not lend itself to full comprehension.
Am I HAVING the phallus or BEING the phallus!?
This will definitely require another reading (or seven) before thesis time, since the density of Butler's ideas are one of the things that make them so interesting."
"It's worth reading but I consider Butler much stronger on immigration and citizenship concerns than on those of sexuality. I recognize her lexicon makes a fair bit of her writing generally inaccessible but having tkane on her works half a dozen times, I don't notice that anymore.
From using the sole, individual, case of David Reimer to make sweeping statements on gender (which she conflates into sex at the most disturbing of times), imposing a change in pronouns onto someone else's repeatedly expressed preference to then declaring it supports transsexuals when in fact it is routinely used in anti-medical transition rhetoric, I struggle to voice my opposition to her work amidst the flood of praise she garners from most people in my circles."
"This certainly cleared up a few ideas that seemed vague in Gender Trouble. Butler asserts here that the performativity of gender does not imply an agency that allows one to put it on and take it off as one pleases, which is in dialogue with Spivak's elaboration of deconstruction where she dismisses the idea of free play. Performativity in this sense is a repetitive reiteration that imagines and images a coherent identity at the cost of its own complexity. It is not a matter of antagonizing the one who performs or the performance itself, but to make the distinction, which then results in the shattering of the heterosexual matrix.
What still needs further elaboration within this discussion is the materiality of sex. I understand and concur with Butler's dismissal of the idea that sex is in a sense a tabula rasa free of identity onto which gender is projected. Sex, then, also enters our perception through discourse, and is made sense of discursively. But where does one draw the line? Which part of the materiality of the body is to be understood as that which is essential to sexuality? To say that our understanding of sex is shaped by discourse is one thing, but that requires a clarification of the extent to which genitality dictates sexuality. On the other hand I really admire Butler's suggestion that a project worth pursuing is of alternative imaginary schemas for constituting sites of erotogenic pleasure. I was first introduced to this idea through Elizabeth Grosz's reading of desire in Spinoza, which led to a call for the proliferation of zones of pleasure, one that would not privilege genitality. I would certainly like to think and read more on this.
I have to admit that I'm still not sure about Butler's insistance on psychoanalysis as a tool of empowerment that can be appropriated. It seems to me thus far that Lacan's phallogocentric discourse (along with Zizek's reading of Lacan and criticism of poststructuralism, feminism and particularly Foucault) is bluntly sexist, heterosexist and essentialist. I certainly like reading Butler's take on it, and there is some due credit to this idea of reversal (which can also be traced back to the appropriation of the word 'queer' itself by queer activists), but I'm not entirely convinced that this is the best way to deal with contemporary issues. I'd like to think that psychoanalysis has lost its widespread influence on how we make sense of the world.
And just how beautiful is this: "The power of the terms 'women' or 'democracy' is not derived from their ability to describe adequately or comprehensively a political reality that already exists; on the contrary, the political signifier becomes efficacious by instituting and sustaining a set of connections as a political reality. In this sense, the political signifier in Zizek's view operates as a performative rather than a representational term. Paradoxically, the political efficacy of the signifier does not consist in its representational capacity; the term neither represents nor expresses some already existing subjects or their interests. The signifier's efficacy is confirmed by its capacity to structure and constitute the political field, to create new subject-positions and new interests.""
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