SOCI 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Symbolic, Undoing Gender, Feminist Theory
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Judith butler (1954-: gender trouble (1990, bodies that matter (1993, excitable speech (1997, the psychic life of power (1997, the precarious life (2004, undoing gender (2005) Sex and gender: gender = unstable fiction, sex also a norm subject to historical change, gender intelligibility, gender trouble". Biological body that has gone unquestioned is also a part of cultural processes. What makes her ideas post-structural is the idea that these rules/norms/laws are not universal/unchanging across time, nor do we unthinkingly negotiate them in the same way comes to difference between structuralist/post-structuralist. Gender creates idea of not only idea of men and women and how they are different, but also to act towards men and women differently. Create the conditions for these forms of violence and the extent to which women are repeatedly regarded as these symbols of sexual violence perpetuate these forms of inequality. Lacan france psychoanalytic theorist in 1950s tried to make more philosophical.
