HREQ 1920 Lecture Notes - Jouissance, Racialization, Moral Panic
25 Feb 2013
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Judith butler a queer theorist recognizes the importance of parody, importance of performitivity. There are ways of producing identities bodily identities . Ex: madonna embraced this identity, notion of the mermaid not heterosexuality the idea of compliance and resistance! Performitivity in relation to gender suggest that we can reform, submerge and play with gender identities. Gender norms aren"t always engraved in us! these performances has a way of denaturalizing! The symbolic power and normalize and challenge the social reality! it gives us the ability to communicate the message that can be interpreted by many ways. Ursula shows resistance to gender norms! in her performance also brings up the idea of called in french ; Jouissance different from the word pleasre transcendent bliss orgasmic! Psycho-analyst coined this term jacque la . And yet when ursula is dead ariel gets back her voice! Ursula allows us to see that femininity is just a performance it can be transformed it is not concrete.
