CT370 Chapter Notes - Chapter pg. 40-43: Luce Irigaray, Gender Studies, Oedipus Complex
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A t first glance, the term regulation appears to suggest the institutionalization of the process by which persons are made regular. Indeed, to refer to regulation in the plural is already to acknowledge those concrete laws, rules, and policies that constitute the legal instruments through which persons are made regular. On the other hand, it would be equally problematic to speak of the regulation of gender in the abstract, as if the empirical instances only exemplified an operation of power that takes place independently of those instances. Indeed, much of the most important work with feminist and lesbian/ gay studies has concentrated on actual regulations: legal, military, psy(cid:173) chiatric, and a host of others. The kinds of questions posed within such scholarship tend to ask how gender is regulated, how such regulations are imposed, and how they become incorporated and lived by the sub(cid:173) jects on whom they are imposed.