WGS260H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Biopolitics, Structural Adjustment, Neoliberalism
14 Sep 2017
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Dress, talk, walk, eat, stand, dance, care for children. There is no subject who is free to stand outside these norms or to negotiate them at a distance; on the contrary, the subject is retroactively produced by these norms in their repetition. We are not born with gender; nor does anyone or anything force it on us. We cite the discourses of gender (citationality) Having to constantly perform over and over. A lot of work goes into naming / maintaining the categories of sex organs. Sex and gender needing reiteration shows their instability and unnaturalness. Sexuality, feminism, and empire: jacqui alexander on colonialism from pedagogies of crossing. Relations the foreclose the self-determination of the people. Reproduce the colonial state with non-colonial figures. People who were the most privileged under the colonial state eventually claimed power. More about us empire on the rise. Movement from european hegemony to us hegemony.
