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Geller, Alex. "Diskurs von Gewicht? : erste Schritte zu einer systematischen Kritik an Judith Butler." Köln PapyRossa-Verl, 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2635022&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.
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Ennis, Kathleen. "Michel Foucault and Judith Butler : troubling Butler's appropriation of Foucault's work." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1965/.
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One of the main influences on Judith Butler‘s thinking has been the work of Michel Foucault. Although this relationship is often commented on, it is rarely discussed in any detail. My thesis makes a contribution in this area. It presents an analysis of Foucault‘s work with the aim of countering Butler‘s representation of his thinking. In the first part of the thesis, I show how Butler initially interprets Foucault‘s project through Nietzschean genealogy, psychoanalysis and Derridean discourse, and how she later develops this interpretation in line with the progress of her own project. In the main part of the thesis, I present an analysis of Foucault‘s thinking in the period from The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) to The History of Sexuality volume 1 (1976). This analysis focuses on the aspect of his work which has most influenced Butler‘s thinking: namely the notion of a relationship between knowledge, discourse and power. The other issues in his work which Butler addresses—genealogy, the subject, the body, abnormality, and sexuality—are discussed within this framework. I show how, in the early 1970s, Foucault develops the notion of power-knowledge, and sets out a relationship between power-knowledge and discourse which is overlooked by Butler. I argue that Butler interprets Foucaultian power through the notions of repression and social norms, and ignores the concepts of technology and strategy which form a key part of Foucault‘s thinking. I show how, from The Archaeology of Knowledge on, Foucault develops a socio-historical ontology and a genealogy of the subject, both of which are at variance with Butler‘s interpretation of his thinking.
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Ganani-Tomares, Dafna. "Mimesis : Judith Butler, visual practice, tragic art." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2007. http://research.gold.ac.uk/178/.
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The project grounds the use of mimesis in my video art practice. In the written element I query equivalence between mimesis and performativity in Judith Butler's conception; I consider the tragic and hyperbolic faculties of these, as ways of promoting expansion of context in received convention. My video clips have performance in them and mime destructive regimes in mainstream conventions of visual culture, of sexual identity and of political position, to challange these. They mobilize convention and deviation from it, through ineptitude of performance or my ambiguous relation to the convention that I use. Butler conceives the generative possibility in regulation (prohibition and/or "law). This is my source for prioritizing failure, and conceiving mimesis a practice of power in modification. Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe is an additional source in my writing, and Luce Irigaray a hovering presence. They are deployed to support my conviction that speculative theory mimes tragic art; Hegelian dialectical philosophy and Freudian psychoanalytic discourse founded in tragic art endow a mutual system of logic and belief that mobilizes rejection of 'difference'. In these tragic discourses mimesis links death and desire. As a force in hyperbole and the constitutive site of all discursive and artistic conventions or tropes, mimesis may suspend as much as confirm the very truths it promotes. Mimesis may turn or exceed anything that can be mimed - I propose. Throughout the project (art practice and written element) I ask - 'how is it possible to re-conceive the terms of the representational conventions to which I object without sharing in the mechanisms that demote those terms?'
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Distelhorst, Lars. "Umkämpfte Differenz : hegemonietheoretische Perspektiven der Geschlechterpolitik mit Butler und Laclau /." Berlin : Parodos, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2952935&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Wilke, Bettina. "Gesellschaftliche Konstruktionen von Geschlecht und Sexualität im Spiegel der Pornografie." [S.l. : s.n.], 2003. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB11163738.
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Smith, Frances C. E. "Rethinking the norm : Judith Butler and the Hollywood teen movie." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/58486/.
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The thesis explores the construction of gender in the Hollywood Teen Movie, often perceived as 'the odious norm' of Hollywood cinema with little to warrant serious analysis.[1] Although Timothy Shary's work has done much to promote the genre as an area of academic enquiry, there have been few sustained textual analyses of the Teen Movie. Through close textual analysis of seven representative case studies, this thesis stages an encounter between Butler's work on gender and the Teen Movie. Butler’s theorisation of performativity denaturalises and deconstructs the assumption of heteronormativity, enabling a detailed analysis of the genre's 'sexual coming-of-age narrative'.[2] Further, the textual analyses complicate and augment aspects of her theories. Following a review of the literature on the Teen Movie, and an examination of Butler's oeuvre, the thesis is divided into three sections. Firstly, the prom is explored as a typical narrative conclusion to the School Film. Secondly, the following chapter analyses star performance and film acting in the youth delinquency film. The final chapter examines the genre’s construction of the past in the "nostalgic" teen movie. The original contribution to knowledge is twofold: the thesis significantly expands existing work on the Teen Movie, and uses the depth and range of specific examples from the case studies to complicate Butler's work. Textual analysis of each film’s construction of heteronormativity demonstrates that this normative and mainstream genre offers a more complex and critical presentation of heterosexual norms than previously appreciated. The thesis rethinks the norm by demonstrating the complexity of normative culture, which demonstrates a range of examples that call for a reconsideration of Butler's theorisation of gender norms.
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Baril, Audrey. "Judith Butler et le féminisme postmoderne analyse théorique et conceptuelle d'un courant controversé /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2005.
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Russell, Sophia. "Kfvinnor äro också människor : Om språk som maktredskap i normaliseringen av kvinnan som politiskt subjekt under rösträttskampen." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-60942.
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Due to the standards and values that characterized our society through history women have had a hidden place in the historiography. By a qualitative media analysis these values have been analysed to find out how women with the right to vote moved the values and how they were described in newspapers and magazines. The study is from Judith Butlers interpretation of how the gender perspective went through a process of normalization. The linguistic dimension of women has been analysed for two reasons firstly to discover how women are described as political subjects in 1911 and 1921 and how this can have affected perceptions of gender and value. In my study I came to the conclusion that their political interests and achievements most often were overshadowed because of their gender 1911 more than 1921. During 1921 it was still more important that women were women than men were men. Secondly I have studied how the women through magazines tried to tone down the fact that they were ground breakers. The study resulted in that the women often described their female characteristics in relation to their political relevance to give the reader the impression that femininity and politics belong together. These phenomena showed up more often in magazines than newspapers and were interpreted as these connections between femininity and politics were a part woman’s leverage to get the right to vote. The study contributes to the research of women’s history and a wider understanding for how language and journalism can contribute to perceptions of genus.
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Torrano, Luisa Helena. "O campo da ambivalência. Poder, sujeito, linguagem e o legado de Michel Foucault na filosofia de Judith Butler." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-30092010-122253/.
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Judith Butler é mais conhecida como autora de Gender Trouble, no qual problematiza a maneira pela qual se pensava o gênero até então. A partir daí, ela publica diversas obras nas quais aprofunda e desenvolve sua filosofia, calcada em larga medida em considerações inicialmente propostas por Michel Foucault, partindo de sua noção de um poder produtivo dos sujeitos. Butler investiga os termos que desenham o campo de possibilidade dos sujeitos, desnudando como nossas noções de realidade são informadas pela linguagem, que indica apenas descrever aquilo que efetivamente molda e orquestra, chamando por transformação social e propondo uma ampliação da categoria de humano.Judith Butler is better known for her best-seller Gender Trouble, that aims at troubling how gender has been thought until then. Afterwards she publishes several works that deepen and further develop her philosophy, largely based on considerations Michel Foucault has originally made, taking into account his idea of a power that positively produces the subjects. Butler inquires the terms that draw the field of possibility of the subjects, unveiling how our notions of reality are informed to us by language, that denotes to merely describe that which it actually frames into existence and orquestrates. She calls for social transformation and proposes an enlargement of the category of human.
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Olivares, Molina Cristóbal. "Nací de semen artificial: ensayo sobre Simone de Beauvoir y Judith Butler." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2011. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/110012.
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Martínez, Pleguezuelos Antonio. "Queer AVT Club: "Gender in Translation: Beyond Monolingualism" de Judith Butler (2019)." Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/653020.
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Tercera reunión del grupo de lectura Queer AVT Club. Se discutió el artículo de Judith Butler: "Gender in Translation: Beyond Monolingualism". La introducción estuvo a cargo de María Pérez L. de Heredia de la Universidad del País Vasco.
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Van, Wyk Alan. "Becoming Otherwise: Politics, Metaphysics and Power in Judith Butler and Alfred North Whitehead." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/12.
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The post-secular event within which we live is occasioned as the limit of the secular project. The secular project meets its limit in attempting to separate a religious private sphere from a public sphere while at the same time repeating as a demand a religious subjectivation of the public sphere: demanding conformity to a simple subjectivity, producing a world of simple subjects through a theologically determined metaphysics of conversion. In this latter demand secularism enforces a simplicity of its subjects and its world. Yet this simplicity cannot be taken up into or as life. To genuinely live and think the post-secular requires, then, not simply a resistance to the secular but a resistance to simplicity, developing ways of becoming otherwise than simply and of producing a world other than that which conforms to a metaphysics of conversion.
This dissertation proposes to meet the requirements of the post-secular event by developing a post-secular political ontology drawn from the work of Judith Butler and Alfred North Whitehead. Read through and out of these two philosophers of becoming is a post-secular political ontology that is embedded within a metaphysics of creativity, a metaphysic that is itself already infected by the political. At the intersection of the work of Butler and Whitehead a metaphysic arises that is a systematic discourse of the political.
From this metaphysic a political ontology is developed. This political ontology begins with a suspicion of grammar as a suspicion of a subject-predicate form of thought that grounds ontologies of substance. With this suspicion, being is allowed to unfold as its becoming, particularly as a becoming material, so that actuality is a becoming materiality. This is also a relational becoming of feeling, becoming as a process of intensive feeling that can never be finalized for itself, always suffering its own continual downfall. Finally, but without finality, actuality is a becoming of creativity, opened by a divine violence that ruptures history by the possible, leading to a post-secular political ontology of the future.
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Baril, Audrey. "Judith Butler et le féminisme postmoderne analyse théorique et conceptuelle d'un courant controversé." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2005. http://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/handle/11143/5261.
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La question centrale de ce travail est la suivante: le féminisme postmoderne est-il utile pour le féminisme défini comme un mouvement théorique et politique visant à éliminer les rapports inégalitaires entre les hommes et les femmes? Pour tenter de répondre à cette question, ce mémoire est réparti en quatre chapitres. Le chapitre 1 vise à définir les termes utilisés dans cette recherche et a comme finalité d'expliciter ce qui constitue les contours d'une philosophie féministe postmoderne. Le chapitre 2 veut être un approfondissement des théories féministes postmodernes à travers l'analyse de la pensée de Judith Butler, une théoricienne dont le nom revient comme un véritable leitmotiv dans le corpus littéraire du courant féministe postmoderne. Le chapitre 3 cherche à comprendre les incidences concrètes de l'utilisation des théories féministes postmodernes en vue de répondre à la question initiale de ce mémoire, en les appliquant à un cas précis, celui de la discussion prostitution/travail du sexe. Le chapitre 4 a pour objectif d'exposer les arguments du débat qui oppose les féministes postmodernes et leurs détractrices et détracteurs, à travers leurs critiques réciproques."--résumé abrégé par UMI.
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Vahlroos, Riikka. "I began to be free : A study on two trans-active Finnish men." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Culture and Communication, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-16686.
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This study focuses on Finnish transmen and their life stories. It goes through the practical reality of the gender re-assignment process, but focuses on the personal experiences of two individual men. The study is based on in-depth interviews with informants, material which has been analyzed with the help of Judith Butler’s theory on gender.
Den här uppsatsen handlar om två finska transmän och deras livshistorier. Studien går igenom den praktiska realiteten av könskorrigeringsprocessen, men fokuserar på de personliga erfarenheterna av dessa två individuella män. Den är baserad på djupintervjuer med informanter, material som har analyserats med hjälp av Judith Butlers teori om genus.
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Jacobsson, Gunnar. "Egensinnig dialektik : En studie i frigörandets paradox i dialog med Hegel och Judith Butler." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-16500.
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Hegel’s master-slave dialectic has often been used as a model or starting point for later theories about emancipation and subversive changes in society. But one often overlooks the fact that the chapter in The Phenomenology of Spirit ends in disaster, as Judith Butler remarks. Instead of realising freedom, the consciousness gets entangled in self debasing activities in its attempts to master the unrelenting principles of the abstract freedom. We get “the unhappy consciousness”. This development is further examined in this essay in dialog with Butler and Slavoj Žižek, amongst others. Focus is placed on the concept of stubborn attachment (Eigensinnigkeit) and the paradoxical role this plays in the development towards freedom. What are the possibilities for transcending a detrimental relationship like the one between slave and master according to the Hegelian dialectic? A conclusion drawn here is that the two chapters about the master and the slave and “the unhappy consciousness” together exemplify Hegel’s assertion of the necessity of having both the abstract, universal freedom – which often take extreme expressions in its one-sidedness – and its concrete correspondence. This aspect is easily overlooked with Butler’s Foucault-inspired view on resistance – a suggestion that also will be further developed in the following.
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Cibelli, Elisabetta Letizia. "Performatività, genere, differenza sessuale : studi su Judith Butler, John L. Austin e Luisa Muraro." Paris 8, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA084189.
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La présente thèse analyse la théorie de la performativité du genre dans la pensée de Judith Butler et, dans le dernier chapitre, la pensée de Luisa Muraro à propos du langage métonymique. Dans l’œuvre de Butler on retrouve deux façons de comprendre la performativité. D’après la première façon, Butler interprète la performativité comme citationalité, à savoir la répétition des normes discursives du genre et du sexe qui produisent les corps et les sujets comme intelligibles. Cette acception de la performativité a eu un écho considérable dans les études queer. La deuxième acception de la performativité, (Le Pouvoir des mots et La Vie psychique du pouvoir) se réfère au moment inaugural du sujet, c’est-à-dire à sa constitution dans le langage et dans le discours suite à une instance interpellant. Cet aspect de la performativité, aborde le pouvoir perlocutoire et illocutoire du langage en tant que matrice de la subjectivité sexuée. La thèse, que analyse aussi la théorie des actes de parole par Austin, utilise le méthode du partir de soi. La partie de la thèse consacrée á Luisa Muraro, développe l’idée d’une sorte de performativité métonymique. Approchant la théorie de Roman Jakobson, des deux axes constitutifs de la parole, l’axe paradigmatique de la sélection (associé à la métaphore) e l’axe syntagmatique de la combinaison (associé à la métonymique), Muraro définit le régime d’ hyper-métaphoricité, dans laquelle la production linguistique e symbolique métaphorique exploite la production métonymique. L’axe métonymique de la parole, qui maintien la relation avec le vécu, peux faire rupture dans la performativité citationnelle et ouvrir un processus de ré-signification de la subjectivitéLa presente tesi analizza la teoria della performatività di genere nel pensiero di Judith Butler e si confronta, nell’ultimo capitolo, con il pensiero della filosofa italiana Luisa Muraro sul tema del linguaggio metonimico. In Butler sono riscontrabili almeno due modi di intendere la performatività. Uno, teorizzato nei testi Gender Trouble e in Bodies that matter, interpreta la performatività come citazionalità, ossia ripetizione delle norme discorsive di genere e sesso che costituiscono e producono i corpi, i soggetti come intelligibili. Questa accezione di performatività, ha avuto un’importanza fondamentale nei successivi studi queer. Una seconda accezione di performatività, si rintraccia in Exitable speech e The Psychic Life of Power: si riferisce al momento inaugurale del soggetto, costituito nel linguaggio e nel discorso inseguito ad un’istanza interpellante. In tale performatività, il potere perlocutorio e illocutorio del linguaggio inaugura la soggettività di genere. La tesi, che riprende la teoria degli atti linguistici in Austin, assume il metodo femminista del partire da sé. La parte dedicata a Luisa Muraro sviluppa la tesi dell’esistenza di una “performatività” metonimica. Rielaborando la teoria degli assi incrociati di Roman Jakobson, per cui la generazione primaria del significato avviene su una doppia direttrice simbolica - della metafora e della metonimia, Muraro definisce il “regime d’ipermetaforicità”, in cui la produzione linguistico/simbolica della metafora sfrutta quella metonimica. La direttrice metonimica del linguaggio, vicina al vissuto, taglia, rompe la performatività citazionale aprendo alla contingenza e alla risignificazione la soggettività
This thesis analyses performativity of gender theory in Judith Butler’s thinking and, within last chapter, it faces Luisa Muraro’s works concerning metonymic language. In Butler one finds at least two ways of conceiving performativity. Within Gender Trouble and Bodies that matter, perfomativity is interpreted as citationality, that is, the repetition of gender and sex conversational rules, which set up and produce the bodies as intelligible subjects. This meaning of performativity has had an outstanding importance within subsequent queer studies. A second meaning of performativity can be found in Exitable speech and The Psychic Life of Power: it refers to the subject native moment, when she sets herself up in language and speech due to a questioning request. In such a performativity, the perlocutory and illocutary power of language gives life to gender subjectivity. The thesis, which takes up Austin’s theory of linguistic acts, assumes the feminist method of starting from herself. The part concerning Muraro’s thought, develops the thesis of the metonymic performativity. Working out again crossed-axis theory of Roman Jakobson, owing which meaning primary generation occurs along a double symbolic line – of metaphor and metonymy – Muraro defines a “ipermetaphoricity - regime”, within which the linguistic/symbolic production of metaphors, exploits the metonymic one. The language metonymic axis, cuts, breaks the citational performativity, thus opening to contingency and to a new meaning of subjectivity
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Åkerström, Tuva. "”Vil I danse hos meg i kveld, Kristin?” : En genusteoretisk analys av subjektskonstituering i Sigrid Undsets Kristin Lavransdatter." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-174946.
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Zapkin, Phillip. "“Culturally Homeless”: Queer Parody and Negative Affect as Resistance to Normatives." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2011. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/245.
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The main theoretical thrust of my project involves the political uses of parodically performing shame and shaming rituals in resisting normative regulation. I argue that parodic performances of this negative affect—traditionally deployed to erase, obscure, and regulate queers—can expose how shame regulates the gender/sexuality performances of straight people as well as queers. I view this project primarily as a tactical shift from the parodic performances outlined by Judith Butler in texts like Gender Trouble, and I feel that the shift is important as a counter measure to increasing homonormative inclusion of (white, middle class) gays and lesbians into straight or neoliberal society. The first section of my thesis is dedicated to exploring theories of homonormativity. I work primarily from Michael Warner’s The Trouble with Normal, which is a queer polemic, and Lisa Duggan’s The Twilight of Equality, which contextualizes homonormativity in the cultural project of neoliberalism. Homonormativity is, in essence, the opening of cultural space in mainstream society for a certain group of gays and lesbians—those who are “the most assimilated, genderappropriate, politically mainstream portions of the gay population” (Duggan 44). As Warner discusses at length, the shift from queer to conservative gay interests has shifted attention from issues like HIV/AIDS research and physical protection of queers to gay marriage and the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which are causes that primarily benefit the gays and lesbians already most assimilated to straight culture. Section II focuses on the work of Judith Butler and other theorizations of parody. Butler’s theory suggests that gender and sexuality consist of a set of continuously repeated performances, and that by performing gender one is constituted as a subject. Butler argues that it is impossible to step outside gender—to stop performing, as it were —because there is no agency prior to the imposition of gender. She locates the only possibility for resistance to gender as a socially regulatory myth structure in the failure to properly perform gender, or in performing in such a way that gender is exposed as always already performative. I have paired Butler’s theory with Linda Hutcheon’s A Theory of Parody, which examines the uses, limitations, and value of artistic parody. These two theorists, of course, have different goals, which complicates the potential for combining their work. In the final section I develop my own theory, which largely takes its cue from Butler’s notion that we can resist gender/sexuality regulation through parodic performance. But, whereas Butler argues for parodic performances of gender/sexuality, I suggest the usefulness of parodying shame and shaming rituals. Shame—the social imposition of it, as well as the desire to avoid it—has long been a force maintaining proper behavior in the largest sense, but I am concerned specifically with the regulation of gender and sexual performances. Queers (understood broadly) and women have long been the targets of shame, while straight males have long been the performers of shaming rituals—mockery, brutal laugher, violence. What I suggest is that through an appropriation and parodic reinterpretation of these shaming rituals and shame itself, queers can expose the centrality of shame in repressing not only queer existence and performance, but in restricting the performative possibilities of straight people. This new notion of performative resistance is especially important as some gays and lesbians enter straight society and become subject to its shaming restrictions, but also become complicit in shaming those queers still outside the realm of homonormative possibilities
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Costa, Zora Yonara Torres. "Safo, Foucault e Butler : a constituição do corpo político lesbiano." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2011. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/10098.
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Esta dissertação tem por finalidade estabelecer um diálogo sobre a formação do corpo político das lésbicas, dinamizado e processado historicamente. E, nessa mistura das cores, como apontou Safo, nesse caleidoscópio em forma de arco-íris é gerada uma construção histórica, na qual se constitui uma narrativa. Nesse processo, surgem novas formas, como assim indica Foucault, em um jogo político e o pensar como sujeito. Vale afirmar também que da era clássica à contemporânea verifica-se a grande contribuição que, significativamente, fornece subsídios para o reconhecimento da diversidade das identidades, incluindo a sexualidade. Deduz-se que, decerto, o conceito de identidade problematizado conduz a uma compreensão da formação do corpo político das lésbicas e os elementos envolvidos. O marco teórico abordado nesta dissertação está centrado nas poesias de Safo, bem como em pensadores e filósofos. Por fim, a fluidez no agir desse corpo político possibilita certa originalidade a este. Assim, a sexualidade é colocada sob novos modos criativos, isso em certo sentido quer dizer que não se descobre o esbianismo, pois este existe pela vontade e é nseparável do que se é. ______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT
This paper aims to establish a dialogue on the formation of the body politic of lesbians, streamlined and historical processes. And this mix of colors, as noted by Sappho, this kaleidoscope in the shape of the rainbow is created a historic building, which is a narrative. And so, in the process new forms, as Foucault put a political game and thinking as a subject. It also states that of the classical era to the contemporary era there is the great contribution that provides significant subsidies for the recognition of the diversity of identities, and that includes sexuality. Surely questioned the concept of identity leads to an understanding of the formation of the body politic of lesbians and the elements involved. The theoretical framework discussed in this dissertation is the centrality of poetry in Safo, thinkers (s) and philosophers. Finally, the fluidity of the body politic act allows certain originality to it. Thus, sexuality is placed under new creative ways, in a sense this means that lesbianism is not discovered, because it exists by the will and is inseparable from what one is.
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Crevier, Goulet Sarah-Anaïs. "Entre le texte et le corps : travail de deuil, performativité et différences sexuelles chez Hélène Cixous." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030122.
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Cette thèse propose de mettre en rapport les enjeux soulevés par la thèse de la philosophe Judith Butler concernant la « mélancolie du genre » et l’œuvre autobiographique d’Hélène Cixous, travaillée depuis ses commencements par la question du deuil et de la différence sexuelle/genre. Dans ce travail, nous souhaitons montrer en effet que la démarche philosophique théorique de Judith Butler, qui relit les thèses freudiennes sur le deuil, la mélancolie et la formation du moi en montrant l’importance de la perte au cœur de l’identité sexuelle, trouve des résonances dans le travail d’écriture et de réécriture « autobiographique » d’Hélène Cixous. L’écrivain reconfigure de fait la notion classique d’autobiographie, tout son œuvre vie étant marqué par un mouvement fondamental qui consiste à reconnaître les deuils et les séparations ayant donné naissance à l’écriture, un mouvement qui consiste, autrement dit, à créer une archive de l’autre. La thèse comporte deux parties : la première partie théorique explique les enjeux qui sous-tendent la « mélancolie du genre » pensée par Judith Butler et les effets de cette mélancolie sur le corps et la sexualité ; les notions de travestissement et de performativité sont revisitées à partir des notions psychanalytiques d’identification et d’incorporation. Puisque la mélancolie du genre est le résultat de la non-reconnaissance des premiers attachements homosexuels, la nécessité de repenser le rapport au maternel, du point de vue féminin plus particulièrement, est posée ; les notions de sémiotique (Julia Kristeva) et de chôra (Jacques Derrida/ Julia Kristeva) ouvrent ici la voie et nous invitent à penser la mère du côté du mouvement et de l’altération, de la plasticité (Catherine Malabou). La seconde partie propose une traversée de l’œuvre d’Hélène Cixous, depuis Dedans (1968) jusqu’aux toutes récentes fictions analysées à partir de la question du deuil et de la notion freudienne de la substituabilité des objets. Sont examinées les formes de substitutions des pertes inaugurales que sont pour l’écrivaine le deuil du père et le deuil de l’Algérie, substitutions qui passent d’abord et avant tout par le travail signifiant. La question de l’humain est abordée par la figure de l’enfant mongolien, dont la naissance quarante ans avant son entrée dans l’œuvre est venue faire vaciller toutes les divisions caractérisant habituellement le sujet (féminin/masculin, humain/animal, vivant/mort), y compris celle, capitale, entre né et non-né. La notion d’incorporation mélancolique est également mobilisée pour explorer les métamorphoses et nombreuses transfigures animales de l’écrivaine, qui mettent en avant la plasticité du vivant mais non moins sa fragilité. Incontournable, la question de la mère et du maternel chez Cixous est analysée dans son rapport à l’écriture et à la langue : lieu de mouvement, support de transformation et de transsubstantiation mais aussi contenance, la langue chez Cixous fait mèreThis thesis proposes to make a link between the issues raised by Judith Butler regarding « gender melancholy » and Hélène Cixous’ autobiographical work, which has dealt from the start with the question of grief and sexual difference/gender. Our wish is to show how Judith Butler, in revisiting Freud’s theories on grief, melancholy and the formation of the ego, points out the importance of loss at the heart of sexual identity and finds resonance in Hélène Cixous’s « autobiographical » writings and rewritings. The writer, in fact, reconfigures the classical notion of what an autobiography is; her/his life-work is under the influence of a fundamental impulse seeking to identify the losses and separations which gave birth to the writing;an impulse which consists, in other words, in creating an archive of the other. The thesis is made up of two parts: the first part explains the issues underlying Judith Butler’s « gender melancholy »and the effects of this melancholy on body and sexuality; the concepts of transvestism and performative utterance are revisited based on notions of psychoanalytical identification and incorporation. The necessity to rethink the maternal relationship, especially from a feminine perspective, is posited. Notions of semiotics (Julia Kristeva) and of chôra (JacquesDerrida/Julia Kristeva) open the way and invite us to consider the mother from the angle of movement and modulation, of plasticity (Catherine Malabou). The second part offers a cross-section of Hélène Cixous’ work, starting from Dedans (1968) right up until her latest fiction, analyzed from the point of view of grief and the Freudian notion of the substitutability ofobjects. The initial losses, which for the writer mean mourning for a father and for Algeria, take on the form of substitutions which are found above all in the work of the signifiers. The human question is broached by the figure of the Down syndrome child whose birth forty years prior to appearing in the literary work, has come and put off balance the divisions which normally characterize the subject (feminine/masculine, human/animal, living/dead), including the crucial division between born and unborn. The notion of melancholic incorporation is also used to explore the metamorphoses and many animal transfigures of the writer, which highlight the plasticity of the living as well as its fragility. The unavoidable question of the mother and the maternal in Cixous is analyzed in its relation to writing and language: a place of movement, material for transformation and for transubstantiation, not to mention countenance. Language for Cixous enacts the mother
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Benoit, Audrey. "Le matérialisme discursif : pour une critique féministe de la construction idéologique du "sexe"." Thesis, Paris 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA01H229.
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On prend pour point de départ le constat d'une résistance dans la réception marxiste française de la thèse féministe de Judith Butler portant sur la construction discursive du «sexe» par le «genre». L'antagonisme apparent du matérialisme et du constructivisme, révélé par la réception française de Trouble dans le genre, invite à chercher, en amont, une solution matérialiste au problème épistémologique de la construction conceptuelle du donné. En remontant à la source de Marx, on peut montrer que sa pensée a nourri, chez Althusser et Foucault, une approche matérialiste du discours qu'on peut qualifier de constructiviste. Au prisme de l'épistémologie historique de Canguilhem, se dessinent des parentés entre Althusser et Foucault qui donnent une postérité inédite à Marx: l'exploration de deux figures du «matérialisme discursif» dans l'archéologie foucaldienne et l'épistémologie althussérienne, permet de rendre caduques les objections empiristes à l'idée d'une construction discursive du« sexe». L'objectif est de proposer une articulation entre le matérialisme marxiste et la pensée queer, en mettant au jour une tradition de pensée qui croise les apports de l'épistémologie historique et du matérialisme, et prend au sérieux la production de la nature et du corps par le discours. Il s'agit de donner à la thèse de Butler les conditions de son audibilité matérialiste et de déterminer en retour la fécondité de sa mise en question du donné pour le marxismeThis analysis starts by pointing out a reluctance in the French Marxist reception of Judith Butler's feminist theories, mainly those regarding the discursive construction of « sex » by «gender». This apparent conflict between materialism and constructivism encourages us to look upstream for a materialistic solution to the epistemological issue of the conceptual construction of «facts». By getting back at the root of Marx, one can indeed show that his thought has provided input into Althusser's and Foucault's reflections for the development of a materialistic approach of discourse, which may be qualified as contructivist. In the light of Canguilhem's historical epistemology, some philosophical kinship between Althusser and Foucault takes shape, which provides a previously unseen posterity to Marx : the examination of two features of «discursive materialism» in Foucault's archeology and in Althusser's epistemology enables to make null and void the empiricist objections at the idea of a discursive construction of «sex». The goal is to pro vide a philosophical junction between Marxist materialism and queer theory, by highlighting a tradition of thought which combines the contributions of historical epistemology and materialism, and which takes seriously into consideration the production of nature and body by discourse. The goal is to provide Butler's theory with the means to be heard as a materialistic account, and in return to specify for marxism what it might gain when this theory challenges the given facts
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Schippers, B. "The politics of marginality : a critical assessment of the ideas of Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.419428.
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Lenk, Lisa-Marie [Verfasser]. "Banalität des Geschlechts : Eine kritisch philosophische Perspektive zur Gender-Theorie von Judith Butler / Lisa-Marie Lenk." Baden-Baden : Academia Verlag, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1212400852/34.
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Lewis, Shannon K. "Revisiting Feminism: Academics versus Activism." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42243.
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Today, feminist theory, instead of accompanying a movement or being generated by a movement, is out there on its own. There is no large-scale social movement to complement it and to act on it. The energy and excitement of collective action is what many feminists miss and what is implied through critiques of contemporary feminist theory. The lament is for unity, for what was conceived of as “sisterhood” and what emerges as a myth. Many feminists share a nostalgia for a time that was filled with the potential for and intensity of social revolution.
When we look at the theory of early second wave feminism and the theory of more recent years, the differences are negligible. What is different, and glaringly so, is the social climate. Theory is not to blame; we are. Theory is not the culprit. Theory is just as impacting and politically useful as it ever was, but it is missing its partner. This realization should be no cause for alarm, however, because there still exist many opportunities for activism, albeit different sorts of activism, based on different sorts of political issues that complement our present needs and abilities.Master of Arts
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MacNamara, Nóirín. "Living with ambiguity : political subjectivity, responsiveness and futurity in the work of Judith Butler and Bracha Ettinger." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.707357.
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This thesis provides a Butler-Ettingerian account of political subjectivity framed in terms of Derrida's democracy to-come. Levinas, Derrida and Ettinger can each be seen to consider the role and effects of'the beyond of the political in the political'. Levinas thinks of it in terms of transcendence, Derrida in terms of hauntology and Ettinger in terms of a transubjective level to subjectivity. Ettinger's is the most useful formulation because she provides parallel ways to thinking difference, desire, and signifying processes which are not structured in terms of language and cognitive knowledge, binary forms of difference, and desire for a 'whole' or transparent self. Within Ettinger's matrixial theory subjectivity is multi-levelled and incorporates two forms of difference, one of which is structured around a binary I/not-I logic, and the other of which is a difference-in-jointness and relates to the co-emergence of partial subjectivities characterised by severally, jointness-in-separation and distance-inproximity. I examine how these forms of difference contribute to an expanded account of sociality within which ambiguity within interhuman relations is an accepted part of social and political life and which enables responsiveness and futurity. Judith Butler provides an account of the conditions of social and political life which necessitate responsiveness. Butler demonstrates that corporeal vulnerability, the differential distribution of material and perceptual precarity, convergent temporalities and unchosen modes of cohabitation necessitate a re-thinking of ethics as a relational practice. Furthermore she stresses the importance of cultural translation so that our sense of obligation extends beyond any form of commonality. I contrast the reading of the Levinasian ethical relation which Ettinger and Butler each provide in order to demonstrate their different accounts of responsiveness and Ettinger's use of a feminine principle. I conclude that a Butler-Ettingerian account of political subjectivity is most suited to living with ambiguity and enabling futurity and responsiveness.
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Howland, Elizabeth E. E. Douglass Thomas E. "A search for authenticity : understanding Zadie Smith's White teeth using Judith Butler's performativity and Jane Austen's satire." [Greenville, N.C.] : East Carolina University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/1896.
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Thesis (M.A.)--East Carolina University, 2009.Presented to the faculty of the Department of English. Advisor: Thomas Douglass. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed May 4, 2010). Includes bibliographical references.
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Jennefelt, Maria. "Om femme fatalen i Lulu. En monstertragedi : En läsning med Butler, Riviere och Lacan." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Gender, Culture and History, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1148.
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This essay examine the femme fatal and the head character in the play Lulu Eine Monstretra gödie by Frank Wedekind. I have studied Lulu, who would be classified as a femme fatal, in terms to see what kind of woman’s portrait a femme fatal is. I will show with the theories of Judith Butler, Jacques Lacan and Joan Riviere how the femme fatal can be seen as a construc-tion, a role done by men. As well as a strong self owned woman. I will also discuss other con-cepts like femme-inism. My aim with this analysis is not to show one, but many different ways of looking at the femme fatal.
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Brunér, Veronica. "Självet, begäret och etiken hos Judith Butler och Jessica Benjamin : (O)möjliga möten mellan modern genusteori och psykoanalys." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-27880.
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The gender theory of Judith Butler is based on both philosophical and psychoanalytic notions of the self. Although greatly inspired by both early and contemporary psychoanalytic thinking, Butler has also questioned some of its core notions such as the meaning of gender complementarity and conceptions of desire. In a dialogue in Studies in Gender and Sexuality she discusses these and other theoretical and ethical issues with the influential psychoanalyst and gender theorist Jessica Benjamin. The exchange is a unique example of an attempt at dialogue and theoretical reflection between a prominent contemporary gender theorist and psychoanalyst. It reveals disagreements and theoretical difficulties I will show to be directly attributable to radical differences between Butler's and Benjamin's conceptions of the self. In a direct comparison, the two perspectives on the self seem to be irreconcilable. Only in reference to a third perspective, that of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, emerges a potential possibility of congruity. I will describe how Winnicotts conception of the self comprises two irreconcilable aspects, and then suggest that one of them has consistently been the essential focus of Butler's interest and attention, while the other has remained the main focus of Benjamin's. In light of this analysis I will discuss the notion of congruity and mention the potential relevance of Butler's philosophy for an expanded understanding of Winnicotts conception of the self.
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Abrams, Sara R. "From injury and punishment to interchange and relation: Rereading Judith Butler through the dialogic principle of Martin Buber." Connect to online resource, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1453544.
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Jansson, Isabelle. "Mode som narrativ : En analys av modets roll i The Picture of Dorian Gray." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Centrum för modevetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-113203.
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My aim with this study has been to examine how the fashion is a leading component in the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. I have studied the role fashion plays in the novel and in which way it can be seen as a way of letting the reader know the important role of fashion in 19tcentury England and the morals of Oscar Wilde. To prove my thesis I have used literature that shows how Oscar Wilde uses influences from his own life in his writing of The Picture of Dorian Gray. I have also used Judith Butler's theory of performativity in analyzing the characters in ordet to display their way of staging themselves and their lifestyles and their dependence of that performativity in their interactions. Even though the theory of performativity often is used to hold the importance of the sexes, I have concluded that it has an important role in the novel when Dorian Gray interacts with the character Sibyl Vane who is an actress. My results have shown that fashion in the novel is often a way of letting the reader know important elements of a character in the way that certain fabrics and items are mentioned when Wilde writes about his characters. I have also found that fashion is an important factor when the characters judge each when they speak about the way they dress. The way fashion is presented in the novel is important to my thesis and has shown me how fashion can be used in literature as symbolic elements guiding the narrative. Keywords: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Fashion in literature, Performativity. Judith Butler
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Jaeger, Suzanne Monique. "The theatre of a certain living pulsation a study of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0028/NQ39275.pdf.
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Okhovat, Sarajeh. "Flaskpost för frigörelse? : En studie om könsroller och emancipation i Alice Munros novell ”To Reach Japan"." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-43233.
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Virkkula, Casper. "Omöjligt liv : Biomakt i Ernst Jüngers Eumeswil." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-274948.
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Blum, Elaine M. "Aesthetic Experience and the (Queer) Self." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1334261034.
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Lundhall, Rebecca. "Evil Women in Harry Potter : Breaking Gender Expectations and Representations of Evil." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-137110.
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With a focus on gender expectations, this qualitative study analyses how Bellatrix Lestrange and Dolores Umbridge in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series represent evil. Through close reading the first and the final three books of the series using the feminist criticism perspective performativity, the aim of this study is to highlight how the evil women in the series are portrayed in comparison to both good characters of both sexes as well as evil men. The results show that while the evil women represent evil in the ways that they break their gender expectations, the good men also represent goodness in the way that they break their gender expectations. Thus, they are not evil because they deviate from these expectations, but because the gendered traits these women embody are connected to evil and, in turn, help make the reader perceive them as such.
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Krigström, Petra. "Dancing for your Self Exploring the theories of Gender Trouble by Judith Butler through homemade dance videos on YouTube." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för planering och mediedesign, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-4678.
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In my essay I explore the theories on performativity by Judith Butler and her book Gender Trouble and apply her theories from the early nineties on today’s Web 2.0 and YouTube. By giving homemade dance videos as an example to show how the division between strong gender identities have softened and are not as important as they were twenty years ago. I also critique some of Judith Butler’s ideas on how to trouble gender and claim that her ideas are perhaps slightly small thinking and narrow-minded if we see on how the gender roles have developed in social media today. She uses drag and transgender as examples to go to the extreme and to act in a way of parody to be able to alter the gender roles. My reply is that although it helps to act in an extreme manner, behaving stereotypically will probably enhance the gender roles further and put drag in a category of its own kind. By presenting information from YouTube such as “likes” and comments we can see that performances which before could be questioned in a gender aspect are now more accepted and that the gender plays a small role in the act of displaying the Self, at least online. Although gender is always present since it is deep-rooted in our daily lives, it should not decide our performance or how we behave depending on what biological sex we are born with. It is the performance that is the important aspect and not the gender the performer is displaying.En titt på hur könsrollerna speglas i dans och musik idag, elva år efter Judith Butler myntade uttrycket Gender Trouble. En jämförelse om Web 2.0 och utvecklingen i att användaren blev skaparen inom social media kan ha någon påverkan på klyftan mellan könsroller idag.
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Wade, Jennifer. "Resisting Oppression through the Meditative Body: A Theological Anthropology of Transformational Anger in Judith Butler and Julian of Norwich." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104361.
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Thesis advisor: M. Shawn CopelandThesis advisor: Amy Hollywood
This dissertation offers a constructive theological reflection on transformational anger. It proposes two theories of transformational anger that aim to contribute to the alleviation of suffering in marginalized communities, especially those marginalized by sex, sexuality and gender. First it proposes a theory of the transformational power of anger drawn from the work of Judith Butler; second, it demonstrates that there is also a theory concerning the transformational anger of the meditative body in the work of Julian of Norwich. While Julian's and Butler's theories have distinct merits, I fuse the two in order to propose a third theory of transformational anger that integrates Butler's theories with Julian's meditative training of the mind and body. Chapters 1 through 3 investigate the work of Judith Butler to show how she articulates new relationships between anger and subjectivity, ones that alleviate suffering. Chapter 1 outlines several important concepts as background for Butler's theories of anger. These include her ideas about gender binaries, genealogy, the materialization of reason, and scenography. Butler shows that a series of binaries--which may seem at first sight unrelated to gender--establish the cultural acceptance of inequality. Matter and Reason prove to be especially important among those binaries. They function like a root system that predetermines the shapes of the leaves that gender will take. Consequently, the investigation of those binaries is a radical investigation into gender. Chapters 2 and 3 explain how the root system of binaries moves into psychic life through a consideration of Butler's account of melancholic anger and her ethics of survival. These investigations show that although people feel anger towards the demands of this root system, Western culture provides no outlet for their expression, which causes them to psychically redirect that hostility inwards as self-punishment. I then propose a theory of anger and its role in the alleviation of suffering by introducing a new category--transformational anger--that is not present in Butler's account of melancholy, but that takes its direction from her account. In my account of transformational anger I suggest a role for public mourning of the loss of fluid relationships, those that would operate outside of the demand for rigidly opposed ideals of masculinity and femininity. Mourning loosens the rigidity of internalized anger. This results in a more fluid and less violent relationship between parts of the self. Applied to communal dynamics, public mourning creates more fluid and less violent relationships between classes of bodies that are marked by masculinity and femininity, and hence a method of survival for those bodies most vulnerable to violence. The second part of the dissertation applies the theory of transformational anger to a reading of Julian of Norwich's A Revelation of Love. In chapters four through seven Butler's lens reveals the previously unexamined role of anger in Julian's text. It allows us to see that Julian's project is systematically directed by her scandalized grief: she is scandalized and grieved that she feels sensitivity to divine and human suffering, but that the all-powerful deity's failure to prevent suffering shows that he does not feel sensitivity to her human suffering. She therefore questions whether the deity is responsible for suffering. While Julian initially rejects her sense of scandal and outrage as sinful, thinking about Julian together with Butler's method of genealogy enables us to see that Julian's anger is at work throughout A Revelation and its insistent return to her experience of outrage at God's seeming indifference to human suffering. As Julian repeatedly returns to her own feeling of outrage, she gradually converts the role of her scandal from a sinful act into the guiding message of her theology. Through these returns she progressively revises the root system of traditional Western binaries that would exclude her anger towards the deity as unintelligible. Julian's reiterations of outrage model an extensive training of awareness and bodily sensation that seek out tensions in her background thoughts and feelings, which are at odds with each other about basic human categories. Through her mature meditative awareness she sees the inconsistency of the Western binaries that frame categories of meaning; this then allows her to revise these binaries and to replace them with new theological ideas. Because these new ideas erode authoritative binaries in the Western imaginary, they also oppose common church teachings about the responsibilities that the deity and human beings hold for suffering, replacing traditional sources of authority with new ones that encourage her anger rather than exclude it. This dissertation therefore emphasizes more than previous scholarship the shifts in sources of authority that occur across Julian's Revelation. Her revision of binaries, her new theological ideas, and her changing patterns in relation to authority model a melancholic anger that turns into transformational anger enabled by the meditative body. Butler's framework reveals that Julian's idea of mother Jesus plays two key roles in the transformational anger at work in the Showings. According to the first role, Julian calls the motion of this transformational anger mother Jesus--a term that is shown to be a practice rather than a personified ideal. Further, reading Julian against the framework provided by Butler suggests that before Julian introduces the idea of mother Jesus late in the text, the revisions that she previously made to Western binaries have already evacuated the feminine and the masculine of their usual meanings. As a result, mother Jesus occupies a third position to which the Western imaginary cannot easily apply categories of femininity or masculinity. According to the second role, mother Jesus is a practice that answers Julian's anger towards the unequal sensitivity that she perceives between divine and human sensitivity to suffering. The dissertation suggests that in this role Julian uses aspects of motherhood as an ideal in the Western imaginary to represent sin or debt. She provisionally uses the maternal ideal in order to erode the boundary between blameworthy human beings and the innocent deity. Motherhood serves to transfer responsibility for suffering from human beings to the deity in the form of divine motherhood. As a result, mother Jesus may owe human beings salvation, for in the Western imaginary femininity is an imperfection, and so may be considered a debt. Through these investigations I show that Butler and Julian use transformational anger through different skill sets to expose the arbitrary nature of binary social ideals. I propose their combination as a contribution to studies in Butler and in Julian as well as to the theologies of marginalization, especially in relation to sex, sexuality and gender, that those two may inform
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Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Oskarson, Kindstrand Gro. "Hur blev jag ett monster? : Om monsterskapande i Howard Phillips Lovecrafts The Outsider och The Thing on the Doorstep." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för genus, kultur och historia, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-18080.
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In this essay, I employ Judith Butlers theories of gender performativity to examine the construction of the monstrosity in Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s two works The Outsider and The Thing on the Doorstep. Focusing on the character’s monstrous attributes, how they are seen by themselves, by others and not least by the reader, I examine how their monstrosity is created and strengthened by dehumanizing processes. I argue that Lovecraft through his narrative technique complicates the relation between monstrosity and humanity in his characters, the result of which is a reader left to determine how monstrous, or human, the creature really is. I claim that the beings, themselves remaining uncertain about their own human and monstrous sides throughout Lovecraft’s stories, are not in fact monsters for the reader until the very moment that they themselves acquiescein their own exclusion.
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Anna, Widoff. "Villkorade rättigheter? : En kritisk studie om heteronormativitet och mänskliga rättigheter för hbtq-personers i Burma." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-364711.
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The purpose of this study is to analyze whether heteronormativity conditions human rights for LGBT persons in Burma, and how “normalization processes” affect and control whose lives, according to Judith Butlers theories, possesses human value. This is done through interpreting the framework of theories by Butler with methods of idea analysis and empirical interviews and research from Burma. Specially highlighted is how the compelling heteronormative social structure affects LGBT persons in Burma, and how the system, according to Butler, is based on the notion that bodies that are “abnormal” are not recognized, and therefore seen as less human and less worthy of human rights. The thesis critically reflects on how Butlers more theoretical reasoning is challenged by the research material. The three research questions are interrelated, in such a way that they all explore how we can understand the human rights situation in Burma for persons that identify as LGBT, based on Butler and queer theory ́s criticism of heteronormativity. The conclusion shows that widespread homo- and transphobia, laws about illegality, the police as frequent perpetrators of violence, (especially against transgender women and gay men) and lack of judicial authority to turn to, makes LGBT people into "anti-citizens" that are reduced to a body without "the right to have rights". Butler's theories have considerable relevance for the context, in her analyzes of who are recognized as human and what the consequences are for human dignity to be outside the heteronormative system. However, they are lacking both legal perspective and problematization of the patriarchal power system, perspectives which has a decisive impact on LGBT persons in Burma.Syftet med studien är att analysera huruvida heteronormativitet villkorar hbtq-personers mänskliga rättigheter i Burma, samt hur ”normaliseringsprocesser” påverkar och styr vems liv som, enligt Butlers teorier, har mänskligt värde. Studien genomförs genom att med innehållslig idéanalys tolka ett teoretiskt ramverk av Judith Butler texter, samt med empiriska intervjuer och forskning från Burma. Speciellt framhävs hur den tvingande sociala strukturen påverkar situationen för hbtq- personer i Burma, och hur det heteronormativa systemet, enligt Butler, bygger på att kroppar som är "onormala" och obegripliga inte erkänns och därmed ses som mindre mänskliga och mindre värdiga mänskliga rättigheter. Studien reflekterar kritiskt över hur Butlers mer teoretiska resonemang utman- as av resultatet från undersökningsmaterialet. De tre forskarfrågorna kan förstås som inbördes bero- ende av varandra på så sätt att de tillsammans utforskar hur vi kan förstå Butler och qeerteorins kritik av heteronormativet, utifrån situationen för hbtq-personer i Burma. Resultatet visar att en utbredd homo- och transfobi, lagar om illegalitet, polisen som frekventa förövare särskilt mot trangender- kvinnor och gay-män, och utan rättsinstans att vända sig till, gör hbtq-personer till “anti-medborgare” som kan reduceras till en kropp utan “rätten att ha rättigheter”. Butlers teorier har god bäring i analyserna om vem som erkänns som mänsklig, och vilka konsekvenser det får för människovärdet att vara utanför systemet, men saknar däremot rättsperspektivet och problematiserandet av det patriarkala maktsystemet, vilka har avgörande inverkan på livssituationen för hbtq-personer i Burma.
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Jurjaks, Arvid. "Kärleken dekonstruerad : En analys av Hjalmar Söderbergs Den allvarsamma leken." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1398.
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Den allvarsamma leken (1912) by Hjalmar Söderberg has been regarded as one of the greatest love novels of Swedish literature. The story about Arvid Stjärnblom and Lydia Stille and their extramarital love is marked by timeless universality.
In this essay, I will examine this notion of love as a prediscursive value, by means pro¬vided by foremost poststructuralist theory. With Derrida’s conception of deconstruction, the analysis will reveal the constructedness of the true love in Söderbergs novel. Examinating typi¬cal logocentric binarisms the essay will show that the notion of true love is constituting a term in an oppositional relation with, in this specific case, the marriage sanctioned by society. This binarism is itself founded with the same principles as the by Derrida much disputed opposi¬tional pair of the spoken and written word.
Further, with true love understood as a discursive construction, the inquiry will show that this construction presuppose the notion of the public and private spheres of bourgeois society, where the public is reserved for the male and the private for the female. This will lead to a discussion of the constructedness status of sex and gender, which will show that the love ex¬pressed in the relationship of Arvid and Lydia is to be understood as a considerable part of heterosexual matrix, that is, the regulative framework which, according to Judith Butler, consti¬tute the rules for how intelligible sex and gender is to be produced.
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Lindeborg, Miriam, and Yazdanpanah Sarah Milander. "Champagneselfies och förevigade barrundor : En kvalitativ studie om hur genus görs i alkoholdiskursen på Instagram." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-112673.
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Användandet av medier har i takt med teknologins framväxt eskalerat, och somliga medieteoretiker hävdar att bl.a. medier bidrar till att både skapa och upprätthålla diverse normer – däribland könsnormer. Media speglar de normer och stereotyper som existerar i samhället genom att lära oss skilja på ”rätt och fel” och bidrar till att måla upp vad som är typiskt manligt och kvinnligt. Ett område där könsnormer ter sig extra tydligt är alkoholfrågan vilken behandlar hur män respektive kvinnor bör agera kring alkohol i fråga om hur, vad samt i vilken kontext alkohol bör konsumeras. Det sociala mediet Instagram används flitigt av svenskar och är ett forum där bilder på fest och alkohol förekommer frekvent. Studiens syfte är att med hjälp av bildanalytisk metod undersöka hur genus och könsnormer görs i alkoholdiskursen på Instagram. Den teoretiska utgångspunkten grundas bl.a. i genusteori av Judith Butler, dramaturgisk teori av Erving Goffman samt tidigare forskning om genus och performativitet. Metodvalet föll på en semiotisk bildanalys i syfte att undersöka betydelsen bakom bilden. Analysen av totalt 58 bilder visar att det både förekommer likheter och skillnader i hur kvinnor respektive män porträtterar sig på Instagram. Framträdande likheter är att både kvinnor och män förmedlar bra stämning kring bilden, att de följer tydliga könsnormer och att alkoholen är i fokus. Vidare tenderar både kvinnor och män att posera i lika stor utsträckning om än i olika former. Skillnader görs tydliga genom bl.a. val av dryck, ansiktsuttryck och vad som verkar ha motiverat den porträtterade alkoholkonsumtionen. Resultatet diskuteras slutligen i fråga om genusgörande, möjliga konsekvenser samt förslag på vidare forskning inom området.
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Rebecca, Nilsson, and Lau Mabel. "Trassliga genus – dags att röja! – Genusrepresentationer i två Disneyfilmer." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-30224.
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Då Disney är en storproducent inom barnkultur kan det vara av intresse att undersöka hur de har framställt karaktärer i sina filmer. Studien fokuserar specifikt på hur genus och kön framställs i två nutida Disneyfilmer då filmerna ger en kontemporär bild på Disneys syn på genus och kön. Studiens fokus är på framställningen av huvud- och bikaraktär i filmerna Trassel och Röjar-Ralf. Studien är kvalitativ och textanalys används som metod för analysen av filmerna. Begreppet den heterosexuella matrisen från Judith Butlers performativa genusteori används i analysen av karaktärerna. Ytterligare används Nikolajevas schema om stereotypa kvinnliga respektive manliga egenskaper för att kategorisera och synliggöra hur karaktärerna är normativa och ickenormativa. Resultaten visar på att karaktärerna upprätthåller de heteronormativa förväntningarna av utseende och sexualitet men har både kvinnliga och manliga egenskaper oberoende av kön. Vidare visar resultaten att karaktärerna i Trassel utvecklas från att vara mer normativa till att vara mer icke-normativa medans i Röjar-Ralf så är de redan från början mer icke-normativa.
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Ghoce, Monique. "Sindhia : En queerteoretisk diskursanalys." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21766.
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the female experience as it is spoken of in the novel Sindhia written by Rut Hillarp (1954) and how the main character in the book violates the experience from a queer perspective. My aim is to through a close reading highlight a number of discourses that underpin the book's imminent theme of love and submission. According to Norman Faircloughs critical-discourse analysis, the text one reads produces a certain amount of discourses that one consumes. This way there is a dialectical interaction that can be set into a practical analysis together with a suitable academic perspective. This is the method I use in this thesis.The academic perspective I add isJudith Butler's queer theoriessupported by Michel Foucaults social genealogyin order to understand/analyze the woman’s position in relation to a social empirical history. I came to the conclusion that Sindhia produces the woman's discourse from an ancient biblical/ mythological time up to modern time. It brings forth untold perspectives that disclose the social hierarchies and women's rebellion against them, a rebellion that has been silenced. The text simply transcends the myths and highlights what has been made invisible, it brings new perspectives to the discourse about women. This shows that the ancient stories that have submissioned the position of women also carry subversive possibilities.
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Beck, Anne. "Hegemonie und Geschlecht in Bettine von Arnims "Dies Buch gehört dem König" im Kontext ausgewählter Frauenromane am Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts." Master's thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2011. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2013/6427/.
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Vergleich von Bettine von Arnims "Dies Buch gehört dem König" (1843) mit Sophie von La Roches "Erscheinungen am See Oneida" (1798) und Henriette Frölichs "Virginia oder Die Kolonie von Kentucky" (1820). Die Texte werden ausgehend von der Annahme untersucht, dass Macht ein asymmetrisches Verhältnis ist, das durch Konsens entsteht (Laclau und Mouffe), und auch Geschlechterverhältnisse als Machtverhältnisse verständlich werden, da Geschlecht keine natürliche Gegebenheit, sondern ein gesellschaftliches Konstrukt ist (Butler). Dementsprechend werden die Texte in einem Spannungsfeld von Anpassung und Subversion verstanden.
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Hillerbrand, Rune Johanna. "Skeva flickexemplar : En queerteoretisk studie om femininitet och sexualitet i Sara Stridsbergs Darling River." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-19655.
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The aim of this essay is to study constructions of femininity and sexuality in Sara Stridsberg’s novel Darling River (2010). The analysis is based on queer theory and the term ’skev’ – a variation of ’queer’ that allows one to focus on additional forms of normativity apart from sexual desire – and examines how the characters of the novel are challenging the heteronormative framework by performing gender and sexuality in non-normative, subversive ways. In short, I discuss how the relationship between femininity, body and destiny is being portrayed, how the characters question heteronormativity by overdoing femininity, and by being unable (unwilling) to perform adult femininity. I also show how the novel constitutes non-normative sexuality in, for example, incestuous, non-reproductive and non-monogamous ways. Furthermore, I locate queer leakages in the text, and discuss how the characters relate to objectification and agency.
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Skoglind, Sandra. "Dåligt uppförande : Om identitet, genus och kroppens politik i Iiu Susirajas fotografiska självframställningar." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-26375.
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This essay examines Finnish artist Iiu Susiraja’s self-portraits in relation to Western traditions and tropes of the genre from the 20th century until today. I use an iconological/iconographic model to describe and to further interpret the images. The purpose is to find out which norms and conventions, within the art sphere and society as a whole, that Susiraja’s images reproduce or revolt against. Thoughts and concepts from the theory of performativity show that the artist, who also appears in the photos, both imitates and breaks free from different stereotypes concerning gender. Through a never ending masquerade, Susiraja highlights how "femininity" and "masculinity" are constructed acts or performances with no original. The analysis discusses how these self-portraits have potential to subvert prevailing norms concerning sex, gender and the body in our society.
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Winberg, Nina, and Matilda Engdahl. "Hon är en riktigt pojk-flicka : En studie om performativa diskurser kring barns kön i fokusgruppssamtal med förskolepersonal." Thesis, Jönköping University, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-52049.
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Syftet med studien är att undersöka vilka performativa diskurser kring barns kön som framträder i de kollegiala samtalen i förskolan. Metoden som användes var fokusgruppssamtal där deltagarna fick tre dilemman att diskutera kring kopplat till förskolans jämställdhetsarbete. Samtalen spelades in för att sedan kunna transkriberas och analyseras.Resultatet visar på att man kan lyfta ur vissa performativa yttranden som förekommer i samtalen mellan pedagogerna. Yttranden som kan ligga till grund för att pedagoger många gånger bemöter pojkar och flickor olika. Det framkommer att pojkar och flickor tillskrivs olika beteenden som också kan ligga till grund till hur barn formar sina könsidentiteter. Flera pedagoger lyfter också in samhällets och vårdnadshavares normer som en stark faktor vilket påverkar pojkar och flickor, vad man som barn förväntas leva upp till i sin könsroll. Pedagogerna samtalar om maktbegreppet i samband med att mansnormen har en starkare position, att det är generellt mer accepterat att en flicka väljer en pojkroll än att en pojke väljer en flickroll.
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Henson, Chelsea, and Chelsea Henson. "Between Animals and Angels: Rethinking Extracategorical Bodies in Medieval Literature." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12439.
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Medieval bodies often push against easy categorization. Hybrids, saints, giants, and transformative bodies are represented in literature as falling between or occupying multiple taxonomic hierarchical positions of divine, human, or animal.10000-01-01
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Mischenko, Jane E. "Unraveling selves: A Butlerian reading of managerial subjectives during organizational change." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/7350.
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This poststructuralist research into managerial subjectivity follows ten senior managers’ experience, during significant organizational restructuring in the National Health Service. Located in the North of England the managers were interviewed three times during an eighteen-month period. An autoethnographic component is integral to the study; this recognises the researcher was a practising manager undergoing the same organizational change, whilst researching the field. Judith Butler’s theories provide the principle theoretical framework for the study. Whilst the managers narrated a fantasy of having a ‘true’ and coherent self, the research illustrated how fragile, fleeting and temporary each managerial self is and how passionately attached to their managerial subjectivity (despite how painful) they were. Emotion is presented as inextricably tied up with gender performativity and managerial subjectivity; despite best efforts the emotional ‘dirt’ of organizations cannot be ordered away; there is a constant seepage and spillage of emotion – as illustrated in the vignettes and profiled in the Butlerian deconstruction. During organizational change there was a fear of a social (organizational) death and even the most senior of managers were profoundly vulnerable. This fear and vulnerability heightened in contact with others perceived as more powerful (in critical conversations and interviews). Failure to receive the desired recognition and the risk of being organizationally unintelligible compounded this vulnerability and triggered recurrent, unpredictable patterns of loss, ek-stasis and unravelling of the managerial self. This acute vulnerability during restructuring anticipates and therefore (re) enacts a Machiavellian discourse, one that excuses unethical behaviour and relations as a ‘necessary evil’.
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Serck, Ylva. "Den queera kyrkan : Svenska kyrkans förändrade förhållningssätt till samkönade äktenskap – en queerteoretisk diskursanalys av Svenska kyrkans teologi." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-83264.
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This paper examines the Church of Sweden’s changing approach to same-sex marriage from a queer theoretical and queer theological perspective. A discourse analytical method examines the previous discourse and how it has come to change over time. The analysis takes place among the statements that priests, bishops, and other theologians have expressed in the public debate, the Church’s theological committee and the church meetings that take place every year. The study also addresses the changes and explanations of the new Church Handbook based on a theological statement. The queer theoretical basis is based on Michel Foucault and Judith Butler's foundations for the theory and culminates in two explanatory models. The study's stated aim of investigating the Discourse of the Church of Sweden also lands in how the Swedish Church responds to National Socialist and value conservative forces in society such as the Sweden Democrats.The Church of Sweden’s policy to flag with the rainbow flag and meet homophobic expressions in both the society as in its own ranks.