SOCIOL 1360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Judith Butler, Identity Politics, Queer Theory
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Queer theory: broadly, challenging the idea of identity as stable and coherent. Heterosexual matrix: biological sex = gender = orientation. How does butler understand sex/gender: discourse: a system of meaning; in this case, surrounding gender. Discursive: pertaining to discourse: there"s no such thing as pre-discursive sex. Biological maleness/biological femaleness is just as culturally constructed as gender, is the same thing as gender. Doesn"t deny that differences exist, but how we interpret those. Our ideas of sex and gender determine how we view sex. What we already know influences how we interpret the world differences. Becomes naturalized over time: identity politics: mobilizing based on a shared identity; campaigns/movements based on identity, argues that category of woman/women is not stable, it is fantastical, sticking to categories can create violence. People feel excluded if they don"t think they fit into terms of (cid:498)woman(cid:499: by having the subject of feminism as women, are doing themselves a.
