Women's Studies 1021F/G Lecture 8: Women’s Studies Lecture 8
23 Nov 2016
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Behind every vector of opression: race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, etc. , there is the question of the human. Who has access to category of the human. 19th century example: sarah bartmaan was displayed as an object to be looked at. Recent example: uk recommended refugees not to be rescued from the. We are all implicated in decisions about what constitutes the human. This includes: civil rights, citizenship equality, justice. But what happens when someone steps outside of that recognisability: how to react/relate to them, what happens to them For butler, the human becomes non-human when they are no longer intelligble according to a given set of norms. Gender risks becoming unintelligible outside of the cisgender model. Sexuality risks becoming unintelligible outside of the heterosexual model. What qualifies as a citizen: we take people who are married a little more seriously, even if we dont mean to, relationship is more real more value, socially invested and supported.
