The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.
"Judith Butler" is an American Continental philosophy/continental philosopher and Gender studies/gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics and the fields of Feminist theory/feminist, Queer theory/queer and literary theory.
-->Since 1993, she has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is now Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and co-director of the Program of Critical theory/Critical Theory.
Academically, Butler is most well known for her books Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex", which challenge notions of gender and develop her theory of gender performativity. Her works are often implemented in film studies courses emphasizing gender studies and the performativity in discourse. She is also well known for her difficult to understand prose.
-->This theory now plays a major role in feminist and queer scholarship.
-->She has also actively supported LGBT social movements/lesbian and gay rights movements and been outspoken on many contemporary political issues.
-->In particular, she is a vocal critic of Politics of Israel/Israeli politics
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous philosophers! More Judith Butler on Wikipedia.It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.
Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.
Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.
When the woman in the audience at my talk said "I survived lesbian feminism and still desire women", I thought that was a really great line, because one of the problems has been the normative requirement that has emerged within some lesbian-feminist communities to come up with a radically specific lesbian sexuality.
A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people only if one believes that Israel alone keeps the Jewish people alive or that all Jews invest their sense of perpetuity in the state of Israel in its current or traditional forms.
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.
Perhaps a new sort of feminist politics is now desirable to contest the very reifications of gender and identity, one that will take the variable construction of identity as both a methodological and normative prerequisite, if not a political goal.
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