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Diplomarbeit, die am 01.01.1997 erfolgreich an einer Universität in Deutschland eingereicht wurde. Zusammenfassung: Im ersten Kapitel beschäftige ich mich zunächst mit der Geschichte des Begriffs ' Geschlecht', um zu verdeutlichen, wie die heutige Wahrnehmung der Geschlechtsunterschiede und der Versuch, sie immer wieder biologisch zu begründen, entstanden ist. Das geschieht immer im Hinblick darauf, ob die Unterscheidung 'von Natur' her in männliche und weibliche Individuen wirklich so natürlich ist, oder eher 'von Kultur' her entstanden ist. Als Quelle dienen mir dazu u.a. verschiedene Lexika des 18.-20. Jahrhundert. Als nächstes gehe ich dann dem nach, ob im Zusammenhang der Zweigeschlechtlichkeit eventuell immer schon gewußt wird, wonach man fragt, indem man von vornherein z.B. in Fragebögen nur von Mädchen oder Jungen; Frauen oder Männern ausgeht, daß die Antwort schon im vornherein festgelegt ist. Dazu habe ich auf verschiedene Aussagen von Frauenforscherinnen zurückgegriffen, die sich mit der Zweigeschlechtlichkeit befassen. Im nächsten Unterkapitel greife ich die von Regine Gildemeister/Angelika Wetterer getroffene Aussage der Rezeptionssperre im deutschsprachigem Raum gegenüber dem Thema der Zweigeschlechtlichkeit als sozialer Konstruktion auf und spreche auch die eigene Erfahrung auf Grund meiner Literaturrecherche an. Ein wichtiger Unterpunkt ist auch die Beschäftigung mit den Arbeiten von Carol Hagemann-White. Ich habe mich aus dem Grund eingehender mit ihren Aussagen beschäftigt, weil sie als eine der ersten im deutschsprachigem Raum, nämlich bereits 1984, u.a. auf alltagstheoretische Grundannahmen der Theorie der Zweigeschlechtlichkeit aufmerksam machte. Soll die These der sozialen Konstruktion von Zweigeschlechtlichkeit auf ihre Haltbarkeit hin untersucht werden, so ist es meiner Meinung nach unabdingbar, die Frage nach der zerronnenen Selbstverständlichkeit der Einteilung der Menschen in zwei und nur zwei Geschlechter an die Humanbiolo... ... Read more

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A collection of work by leading feminist scholars, engaging with the question of the political status of poststructuralism within feminism, and affirming the contemporary debate over theory as politically rich and consequential. ... Read more

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In Prejudicial Appearances noted legal scholar Robert C. Post argues modern American antidiscrimination law should not be conceived as protecting the transcendental dignity of individual persons but instead as transforming social practices that define and sustain potentially oppressive categories like race or gender. Arguing that the prevailing logic of American antidiscrimination law is misleading, Post lobbies for deploying sociological understandings to reevaluate the antidiscrimination project in ways that would render the law more effective and just.

Four distinguished commentators respond to Post’s provocative essay. Each adopts a distinctive perspective. K. Anthony Appiah investigates the philosophical logic of stereotyping and of equality. Questioning whether the law ought to endorse any social practices that define persons, Judith Butler explores the tension between sociological and postmodern approaches to antidiscrimination law. Thomas C. Grey examines whether Post’s proposal can be reconciled with the values of the rule of law. And Reva B. Siegel applies critical race theory to query whether antidiscrimination law’s reshaping of race and gender should best be understood in terms of practices of subordination and stratification.

By illuminating the consequential rhetorical maneuvers at the heart of contemporary U.S. antidiscrimination law, Prejudical Appearances forces readers to reappraise the relationship between courts of law and social behavior. As such, it will enrich scholars interested in the relationships between law, rhetoric, postmodernism, race, and gender. ... Read more

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Historically, leftwing accounts of injustice focussed primarily on economic harms, such as poverty, exploitation, and inequality. Recently, however, with the collapse of Communism and the rise of identity politics, attention has turned toward cultural harms, such as cultural imperialism, 'misrecognition,' and disrespect. New challenges for the left are raised: How to do justice to the legitimate claims of multiculturalism without abandoning the left's historic-and still indispensable-commitment to economic equality? How to broaden the understanding of injustice by adding (cultural) insult to (economic) injury? Adding Insult to Injury traces the debate sparked by Nancy Fraser's controversial effort to combine the social politics of equality and the cultural politics of difference, while probing the tensions between them. Introduced by Richard Rorty, the volume contains Fraser's influential essay 'From Redistribution to Recognition?'; critical responses by Judith Butler, Joseph Heath, Kevin Olson, Anne Phillips, and Iris Marion Young; and Fraser's rejoinders to them. The result is a wide-ranging and at times contentious exploration of alternative approaches to rebuilding the left. ... Read more

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What is queer theory? What does it do? Is queer theory only for queers? This vibrant anthology of ground breaking work by influential scholars, activists, performers, and visual artists is essential reading for anyone with an interest in sexuality studies. The fifteen articles--including one from Judith Butler, as well as an engaging introduction--map, contextualize, and challenge queer theory's project both within and beyond the academy. Summaries and suggestions for further reading make the volume an ideal course textbook.
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Speech act theory seductively charged
Shoshana Felman originally published this venture under the title "The Literary Speech Act" in 1984. Because it had made little impression Stanford University Press repackaged this intriguing Lacanian-bent reading of language and its seductive intentions under a new title, and, as if it were not enough, with a foreword by Stanley Cavell and an afterword by Judith Butler. The latter is exceptional as always, while the former delights in providing some of the history to set the stage as a foreword well should.
Eros and language have often been seen as consorts but through the intermediary of speech act theory and a close reading of Moliere's Don Juan this work hinges on overlooked crevices to open a discourse yet needing further applications.
The premise is executed with imaginative sensibilities, however there is a deeper statement being made by the author, which corresponds with Nietzsche's corrective of Aristotle, claiming that man is not so much a political animal as much as he is a promising one. This semiotic distinction is laced in a brave exploration of J.L. Austin's speech act theory as well as through a deconstructive rendition of the Don Juan myth as it reads in Moliere.
"The Scandal of the Speaking Body" announced an essential theme in contemporary philosophy (and theology) which has not assumed the voice its role demands. There has been much talk about the notion of the gift and the place of speech in the political, but the element of promise has been left to its own devices, seduced but not consummated, called upon but not interrogated. Felman does just that, while in order to never strain her focus she renounces to fully delve into the correlation which promise has with the political, making it an assumption which is alluded to, inspite of the fact that it is to this notion that are owed the most illuminating examples. The act of promising is explored with vivacious vehemence and intelligence in a humorous and sound performance that sets the stage as it undoes it. Performance studies has become a rightful descendent of speech act theory and this book explains theoretical nuances that others take for granted. The re-issue of this title is a worthy cause and the encounter here performed a study that deserves a wide readership as much as the seductive role of promising in language must find a ways to lure more attention and further interest.
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This unique volume presents a debate between four of the top feminist theorists in the US today, discussing the key questions facing contemporary feminist theory, responding to each other, and distinguishing their views from others. ... Read more

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Missing the mark?
This book presents a sophisticated dialogue between several prominant feminist theorists in academia today.While reading, however, I kept thinking that they just may have missed the mark.The book was intended to be a dialogue debating and unpacking many of the contemorary dilemmas in feminism today.However, I found this dialogue to be so personal and sometimes catty that I began to wonder what the point was.I liked Drucilla Cornell's essay on how to "do" ethical feminism because it dealt with tangible, workable issues in feminism.I found that many of the other essays smacked of metaphysical arguements that I just couldn't apply to my life or my own work in feminism.For example, there was a lengthy arguement over whether feminism is postmodern.While reading this banter I had the distinct feeling that it was becoming a linguistic, not a theoretical arguement.Also, throughout the book, obscure examples were used and not explained and I was left feeling inadequate and confused.This book is an excellent resource for those who are accomplished in feminist studies and who are interested in the personal relationships feminist theorists.It is imperative that those reading this collection have a strong base in feminist theory and a dictionary in tow.I felt about this book the way I feel about most contemporary feminist theory; that it is a lot of talk and no action, that it is inaccesible, written for the privileged.I am often saddened that such talent can be so misdirected and wasted on intra-babble within academia instead of trying to reach women and men that feminism should really be for. ... Read more

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Chapters: Warren Farrell, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Judith Butler, Sandy Stone, Susan Mcclary, Mary Daly, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Evangeline Anderson Rajkumar, Adam Jones, Laura Mulvey, Lisa Sousa, Claire Griffiths, Judith Halberstam, Nayereh Tohidi, France Winddance Twine, Raewyn Connell, Joan Wallach Scott, Eva Lundgren, Toby Miller, John D'emilio, Rictor Norton, Dale Carpenter, Michael Messner, Edwin Ardener, Kathy Rudy, Martina Löw, Martin Duberman, Grace Jantzen, Tyler Curtain, Meera Kosambi, Myra Marx Ferree, Lauren Berlant, Wendy Mitchinson, Robert Reid-Pharr, Mary S. Hartman, Gayatri Reddy, Kenneth Clatterbaugh, Luana Ross, Lila Karp, Linda Haas, Alan Bray, Gabrielle Houbre, Tani E. Barlow, Calvin Thomas, David Morgan, Margot Bengtsson, Lucille M. Mair, Elspeth Probyn, Andrea Doucet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 187. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Judith Butler (born 24 February 1956) is an American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is currently the Maxine Elliott professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley. Butler received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1984, for a dissertation subsequently published as Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France. In the late-1980s she held several teaching/research appointments, and was involved in "post-structuralist" efforts within Western feminist theory to question the "presuppositional terms" of feminism. Her research ranges from literary theory, modern philosophical fiction, feminist and sexuality studies, to 19th- and 20th-century European literature and philosophy, Kafka and loss, mourning and war. Her most recent work focuses on J...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=148809 ... Read more

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Kapitel: Gender, Frauenforschung, Sex-Positiver Feminismus, Männerbewegung, Gender Mainstreaming, Judith Butler, Queer-Theorie, Feministische Wissenschaftstheorie, Lesben- Und Schwulenbewegung, Weiblichkeit, Antifeminismus, Gender Studies, Ulrike Prokop, Geschlechtsunterschiede Im Gesprochenen Japanisch, Feministische Philosophie, Camille Paglia, Frauen in Der Philosophie, Göttin, Wissenschaftliche Männerforschung, Patriarchat, Männlichkeit, Standpunkt-Theorie, Klaus Theweleit, David Reimer, Doing Gender, Patrick Califia, Frauenarbeit, Geschlechterverteilung, Raewyn Connell, Frauendomäne, Warren Farrell, Männerdomäne, Cäcilia Rentmeister, Undoing Gender, John D'emilio, Gender-Marketing, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Schwurjungfrau, Geschlechtssensible Pädagogik, Sally Miller Gearhart, Woman Acceptance Factor, Gender Gap, Margarete Jäger, Volker Elis Pilgrim, Evelyn Fox Keller, Geschlechterdemokratie, Peter Döge, Straight-Queer Masculinities, Andrea Sick, Phallogozentrismus, Michael Flood, Cross-Gender, Zwei Morale, Karla Jay, Gender-Symbol, Robert Stoller, Europäisches Institut Für Gleichstellungsfragen, Hans-Joachim Lenz, Cinderella-Komplex, Barbara Schaeffer-Hegel, Elena Pulcini, Kathy Rudy, Genderbibliothek, Genderkompetenz, Gender Bias, Kenneth Clatterbaugh, Sexualisierung. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Gender is the wide set of characteristics that are seen to distinguish between male and female. It can extend from sex to social role or gender identity. As a word, "gender" has more than one valid definition. In ordinary speech, it is used interchangeably with "sex" to denote the condition of being male or female. In the social sciences, however, it refers specifically to socially constructed and institutionalized differences such as gender roles. The World Health Organization (WHO), for example, uses "gender" to refer to "the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society cons...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Chapters: Judith Butler. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 125. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Judith Butler (born 24 February 1956) is an American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is currently the Maxine Elliott professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley. Butler received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1984, for a dissertation subsequently published as Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France. In the late-1980s she held several teaching/research appointments, and was involved in "post-structuralist" efforts within Western feminist theory to question the "presuppositional terms" of feminism. Her research ranges from literary theory, modern philosophical fiction, feminist and sexuality studies, to 19th- and 20th-century European literature and philosophy, Kafka and loss, mourning and war. Her most recent work focuses on Jewish philosophy, exploring pre- and post-Zionist criticisms of state violence. Butler was born in Cleveland, Ohio to a family of Hungarian and Russian ancestry. Her mother was raised in Orthodox Judaism, later turning to Conservative Judaism, and finally to Reform Judaism; Butler's father belonged to a Reform Synagogue since his childhood. As a child and teenager, she attended both Hebrew school and special classes on Jewish ethics where she received her "first training in philosophy." Butler stated in a 2010 interview with Haaretz that she began the ethics classes at the age of 14 and that they were created as a form of punishment by her Hebrew school's Rabbi because she was "too talkative in class," "talk back," and was "not well behaved." Butler also stated t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=148809 ... Read more

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Chapters: Simone de Beauvoir, Joanna Russ, John Shelby Spong, Dorothea Beale, Judith Butler, Hélène Cixous, Andrea Dworkin, Germaine Greer, Bracha L. Ettinger, Melissa Farley, Women's Writing in English, Catharine Mackinnon, Annette Kolodny, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Elaine Showalter, Sheila Rowbotham, Mary Daly, Donna Haraway, Jo Freeman, Susan Bordo, Audre Lorde, Bell Hooks, Janice Raymond, Werner Krieglstein, Ellen Willis, Sarojini Sahoo, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Barbara Ehrenreich, Mahnaz Afkhami, Karen Armstrong, Dorchen Leidholdt, Evangeline Anderson Rajkumar, Carol Adams, Marilyn Waring, Erin Pizzey, Amina Wadud, Laura Lederer, Hanne Blank, Shahrzad Mojab, Riane Eisler, Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson, Etel Adnan, Andrea Smith, Reva Siegel, Jean Kilbourne, Laura Mulvey, Mary Astell, Shere Hite, Phyllis Chesler, Helen Gurley Brown, Donna M. Hughes, Elsie Clews Parsons, Barbara Smith, Val Plumwood, Margo St. James, Lady Mary Chudleigh, Leila Ahmed, Griselda Pollock, Seyla Benhabib, Monique Wittig, Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, Patrick Califia, Luce Irigaray, Emily Martin, Gayle Rubin, France Winddance Twine, Hilary Wainwright, Lynn Mcdonald, Bettina Aptheker, Barnita Bagchi, Stephanie Coontz, Robert Jensen, Pam Cook, Wendy Kaminer, Elana Dykewomon, Irena Klepfisz, Sue-Ellen Case, Avital Ronell, Lucy R. Lippard, Frances Buss, Shulamith Firestone, Melanie Kaye/kantrowitz, Wendy Mcelroy, Malathi de Alwis, Chaviva Hošek, Martha Fineman, Eva Lundgren, Evelyn Reed, Barrie Karp, D. A. Clarke, Eric Rofes, Fatema Mernissi, Marilyn Frye, Catherine Clément, Kristin Luker, Alan Soble, John Stoltenberg, Diana E. H. Russell, Carolyn Merchant, Susan Brownmiller, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Marilyn French, Midori Suzuki, Nancy Fraser, Mary Anne Warren, Urvashi Butalia, Beverly Smith, Craig Owens, Sunila Abeysekera, Kumari Jayawardena, Rita M. Gross, Carol Tavris, Nancy Chodorow, Michele Wallace, Jessie Bernard, Jasodhara Bagchi, Carole Ferrier, Chantal Mo...http://booksllc.net/?id=22320587 ... Read more