SOC395H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 8: Judith Butler, Linguistic Turn, Michel Foucault
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In her conceptualizaion of gender and sexuality, judith butler puts a strong emphasis on the linguisic turn by focusing on the way, in which language consitutes social reality. Butler takes a foucauldian perspecive on discourse in which discourse can be both an instrument and an efect of power, but also a point of resistance and a staring point for an opposing strategy (2001) . Idenity categories are regulatory, instable and oppressive o. Butler very uncomfortable and troubled in idenity categories. Coming out into a new idenity category (ex. Outness promises disclosure but in actuality, it might never happen. Gender is performaive, luid and there are no ixed ideniies\ o o. Gender is always preforming : being a heterosexual is not what makes someone act as a heterosexual, it"s repeatedly acing in a why is being a heterosexual. Homosexuality is just a copy of heterosexuality (because it"s the norm) But heterosexuality isn"t even a deiniive thing: there"s no original.
