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| Gender: Gender is a social construct that refers to the roles, behaviors, expressions, and identities that a society associates with being male, female, or someone outside of the gender binary. See also Gender roles._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Judith Butler on Gender - Dictionary of Arguments
Brocker I 743 Gender/Sex/Butler: Thesis: The category "gender" is a performative everyday practice that can stabilize or disorder power orders. The distinction between (natural) "sex" and (socio-historical) "gender" was introduced only a few years before Butler in order to work out the social, made dimension of "gender".(1)(2) Brocker I 745 The binary distinction "sex"/"gender" is based on the dichotomy of nature/culture and presupposes a sexual nature of humans. (3) (ButlerVs). >Nature, >Culture, >Gender roles. "Gender" is logically linked to "sex", a culturally formed representation of something that is biologically designed. "Sex" implies the complementarity of two genders. Brocker I 746 Problem: With the "sex"/"gender" distinction, feminist theory therefore captures the two-sex order and the inherent norm of heterosexual orientation. >Feminism. ButlerVsTradition: in the feminist tradition theory is linked to politics and both are linked to language. What cannot be thought and articulated cannot be lived. How we think determines what is recognized, what objects and problems arise. >Feminism/Butler, >Language and thinking, >World/thinking. 1. Joan W. Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis”, in: The American Historical Review 91/5, 1986, 1053-1075. 2. Judith Butler/Elisabeth Weed (Ed.) The Question of Gender. Joan W. Scott’s Critical Feminism, Bloomington, Ind. 2011. 3. 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, Kap 1. Christine Hauskeller, “Judith Butler, Das Unbehagen der Geschlechter“ in: Manfred Brocker (Hg.) Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt/M. 2018_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments 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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