WGS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Judith Butler, Identity Politics, Performativity

• School: Miami University
• Department: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies
• Course: WGS 201
• Professor: caleb Pendygraft

Document Summary

Judith butler: gender troubles (feminism and subversion of identity) The question of the subject is crucial for politics power is always filtered through some type of discourse the law (language) dictates what kind of subjects can exist first thing u ever are is a body, The text is an example of third wave. Methodology informs and shapes the character of various methods . Methods- techniques for gathering evidence or conducting research . Feminism does not equal science: hypothesis, experiment/ tools/ materials/ methods particular to that experiment, collect data/ results, discussion/ review/ publish, origins of problematics social factors/ political issues, purposes of inquiry (why are u doing this)