WGS373H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Judith Butler, Feminist Theory, Burqa

• School: UTM
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS373H5
• Professor: Beverly Bain

Document Summary

Juridical power: refers to law, a lot of this power is legislative, legislations and rules, regulate particular kind of behavior in sexuality (confessions, medical professions) regulatory discourses, how, when and where certain discussions of sexuality take place. It is regulated in particular arenas it appeared to be suppressed and oppressed. Continue through facilitated by gender performance corresponds with sex and how you identify as a sex body. When doing regularly it becomes rigidified, ritualized, that becomes what the norm is, various forms of juridical powers that performs within that framework. In that same ritualization you are able to rigidified the performance. She started challenging the concept of women, who have done feminism and feminist theories. Feminists also separated the concepts of gender and sex. Women"s body defined who they were and sex, feminists wanted to change that thus gender became the operative of the practices that placed women very much closer to nature.