Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Postcolonial Feminism, Global Feminism, Postcolonialism
14 Jul 2016
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One risk i take is to be recolonized by the sign under which i write, and so it is this risk that i seek to thematize. Considering the risk of categorizing oneself as lesbian, as female, as heterosexual, rather than as. She"s thinking about the risk one takes as categorizing oneself, rather than categorizing simply as i . Sees identity categories as necessarily problematic, as sites of necessary trouble . Questions how we can overcome the identity without challenging it, but to challenge it is to validate it. To question to gender is to assert that gender exists. Being our only gains meaning through being in. Terms lesbian and gay have a political importance to rally and represent an oppressed political constituency . Being lesbian is as much as performance as being a woman. Need to challenge the performance to reaffirm the i , or the individual.
