EMAIL<\/a> | SYLLABUS<\/a> | POLICIES<\/a> | QUESTIONS<\/a> | PRESENTATIONS<\/a> | JOURNALS<\/a> | PAPER<\/a> | FINAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Assigned: Butler, Judith. \u201cPreface\u201d and selection from Ch. 3. \u201cSubversive Bodily Acts\u201d in Gender Trouble<\/em> (2540-53 in Leitch, Vincent B. and William E. Cain, eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.<\/em> 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-93292-8).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. On 2540-41, what point does Butler make about the way \u201cpower\u201d may work? How is it best not to understand the operations of power? And how does she invoke de Beauvoir, Nietzsche and Foucault in the service of her argument?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. On 2540-42, what criticism does Butler make even of Foucault with respect to the assumptions he makes about the relationship between the human body and the realm of culture, politics, and history? In what sense does Foucault\u2019s main assumption about the body limit his ability to deal with gender issues, in Butler\u2019s view?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. On 2544-47, how does Butler address the role that the binary logic at work in paired terms such as \u201cinside\/outside\u201d plays in gender-based (and other) oppression? How does such binarism contain the seeds of its own destruction, so to speak? (Suggestion: look up \u201cbinary logic\u201d on the internet for a definition.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. On 2547-50, Butler offers an explanation as to how we come to see even gender (remember that \u201cgender\u201d isn\u2019t the same as \u201cbiological sex\u201d or \u201c anatomy\u201d) as something essential and fixed, something that comes from deep within. What cultural mechanism or force encourages us to understand it that way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. On 2550-2553, what alternative to binary gender logic does Butler set forth? What does she apparently mean by \u201ca corporeal style\u201d (2551)? What does the term \u201cperformativity\u201d mean in her lexicon? {Suggestion: don\u2019t take this word in the usual sense; look it up — study how J. L. Austin uses it in the selection \u201cPerformative Utterances\u201d from 1289-31 of the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism,<\/em> 2nd. ed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. General question: to what extent do you find Butler\u2019s notion that gender can be made to seem \u201cincredible\u201d (2553) practical or achievable? If you say \u201cyes,\u201d what\u2019s the basis of your optimism? If you say \u201cno\u201d or \u201c not anytime soon,\u201d how might Butler\u2019s argument nonetheless be valuable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JUDITH BUTLER QUESTIONS FOR E492 MODERN CRITICAL THEORYCSU FULLERTON, FALL 2015 Assigned: Butler, Judith. \u201cPreface\u201d and selection from Ch. 3. \u201cSubversive Bodily Acts\u201d in Gender Trouble (2540-53 in Leitch, Vincent B. and William E. Cain, eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-93292-8). From \u201cPreface\u201d to Gender […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"wf_page_folders":[47],"class_list":["post-965","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5158,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/965\/revisions\/5158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}From \u201cPreface\u201d to Gender Trouble<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
From Chapter 3: \u201cSubversive Bodily Acts\u201d: Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
From Chapter 3: \u201cSubversive Bodily Acts\u201d: From Interiority to Gender Performatives<\/h2>\n\n\n\n