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A simple question. I remember watching a video of Zizek where he narrated how Butler and he are great colleagues, but with some fundamental disagreements. Anyone know what these would be?
Is Judith Butler's Gender trouble actually a 'genealogy of gender'?
In the Preface and Chapter 1 of Gender Trouble (1990) Butler describes the work as a 'genealogy of gender', but then when she really gets into it in chapter 2, the object of analysis is the predominant psychoanalytic theories of sex and sexuality etc.. Lacan, Freud, etc. I was kind of surprised at how much of this text is just a critique of Lacan and Freud and the fact that they always presume some level of heterosexuality. But this isn't really 'genealogy'. If any thing it seems more like a immanent critique of Freud and Lacan.
How does the trans community feel about Judith Butler?
She's a philosopher that's done a fair amount of writing about gender, and the work of hers I'm most familiar with centered around the performativity of gender. Straight from her wiki page: Butler argues that gender is best perceived as performative, which suggests that it has a social audience. It also suggests that women's performances are compelled and enforced by historical social practice [which is a bad thing]. Also that the natural seeming coherence of biology and identity has been constructed over time. Is the concept generally looked at in a positive light as "your gender [which is not limited to strictly traditional men and women] is based off of what you do, so do what you want"? I thought it would be, but I have seen some negative posts about her. Did I just run into some edge cases or is the community split on the matter?
How does Judith Butler's gender performativity theory contend with the existence of trans people ?
To the best of my understanding, Butler claims that gender is a performance based on our surrounding culture so how does this deal with trans people who have something so innate that they behave as the other gender despite them being treated as the other.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, except it's Judith Butler: TERF Hunter and instead of a stake through the heart it's a copy of Gender Trouble to the head.
inb4 this gets posted on ovarit for "encouraging violence against women"
Once I interviewed Judith Butler and later saw it being used as a reference/source...
This is just an appreciation post for Judith Butler I guess. Seeing someone that is non-binary challenging gender conventions was a formative part of realizing that I am non-binary as well. My old gender therapist recommended the book Gender Trouble and that's how I discovered them. I only read through a bit of it, to be honest. All of that combined with my interview with this director of a national transgender advocacy organization helped me gain confidence in actually coming out. After learning about Judith Butler being a philosopher and gender theorist, I did a deep dive into philosophy and bought a bunch of books. I later learned that the books were all public domain, but I enjoyed reading Foucalt, Kierkegaard, and the rest of them all. I guess I'm grateful for how learning about one thing can lead to a lot of good things.
Advice on Recent commentaries on Judith Butler's Gender Trouble (1990)
Is there and essay around, that is something like 'Gender Trouble Revisited' ? a short, meta-commentary on the text? I am reading it for the first time.
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I'm reading through the first chapter of Butler's Subjects of Desire, which delineates the self-consciousness chapter of the Phenomenology (excluding the last part on stoicism, skepticism, and the unhappy consciousness) and while it's stimulating I can't pinpoint what it is that's supposed to be distinctive about her reading. Anyone familiar with her work who cares to elaborate?
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