POL S212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Monique Wittig, Julia Kristeva, Simone De Beauvoir

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL S212
• Professor: Sevan Beukian

Document Summary

Julia kristeva: removing the naturalness, woman does not have a sex. luce irigaray, the deployment of sexuality established this notion of sex. Foucault: the category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual. It seems that these qualities are needed in order to become a viable subject worthy of representation. Or that feminism is something universal: feminism that attempts to fit within the discourse of gender that views women struggling against a certain patriarchal structure that is common: As a result, gender is not to culture as sex is to nature (11: only viewed as natural because it"s been ingrained as such. The reality of gender is also put into crisis: it becomes unclear how to distinguish the real from the unreal. And this is the occasion in which we come to understand that what we take to be real, what we invoke as the naturalized knowledge of gender is, in fact, a changeable and revisable reality.