PP249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Identity Politics, Judith Butler, Abstract And Concrete
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The current ts/tg political agenda: 2 key issues in contemporary transsexual/transgendered politics, issues of identity, issued of health care, she looks at these two issues in the context of the criminalization of transsexual lives, limitations of ts/tg organizing. The focus on identity: not only has the tendency to centre all discourse about ts/tg people around identity been exclusionary, it has also made it difficult to engage in meaningful institutional analysis. The clevage between theory & practice: namaste is critical of feminists like butler who focus most of their attention. Ts/tg/drag/queers as subverting gender norms : the focus on gender as an abstract object of academic study is not in itself wrong, however, namaste thinks that such a focus ignores real concerns about the plight of. Issues related to the real life test (now called the real life experience ) for prostitutes.
