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Power: Political power is the ability to influence or control the behavior of others in the political sphere. It can be exercised through formal institutions, such as the government, or through informal means, such as persuasion or coercion. See also Coercion, Persuasion, Government, Governance, Society, Politics, Democracy, Ideology.
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Judith Butler on Power - Dictionary of Arguments

Brocker I 746
Power/Gender Roles/Butler: every definition of "woman" or "female" strengthens the power structures that feminism wants to question. (1) A power order beyond gender is inconceivable as long as women determine themselves as feminine in contrast to masculine.
Problem: we have become subjects as one gender or the other. Behaviour, thinking, desire is also coloured and interwoven with gender. We are conform or disagree with what the balance of power allows as intelligent.
Solution/Butler: Feminism must try to get along without a subject "woman".
>Feminism/Butler.

1. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, New York/London 1999 (zuerst 1990); Dt. Judith Butler, Das Unbehagen der Geschlechter, Frankfurt/M. 1991, chap 1.

Christine Hauskeller, “Judith Butler, Das Unbehagen der Geschlechter“ in: Manfred Brocker (Hg.) Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt/M. 2018


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The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
Butler, Judith
Brocker I
Manfred Brocker
Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert Frankfurt/M. 2018


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