POLS 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: The Circular Ruins, Postfeminism, Judith Butler
23 Dec 2017
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For feminist theory, development of language that fully/somewhat represents women is seen to be necessary to foster political visibility of women: this relation between feminist theory and politics has come under challenge from within feminist discourse. Representation is extended only to what can be acknowledged as a subject: qualifications for being a subject must first be met before representation can be extended. Foucault says that juridical systems of power create subjects they subsequently come to represent: appear to regulate political life in purely negative terms like: limitation, prohibition, regulation, control, and even protection . Juridical power inevitably produces what it claims to represent, hence politics must be concerned with this dual function of power: juridical and productive. Impossible to separate gender from political/cultural intersections where it"s produced and maintained. Universal patriarchy doesn"t have same credibility as it once did. Presumed universality, unity of subject of feminism undermined by constraints of representational discourse in which it functions.
