SOC425H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Judith Butler, Genderqueer, Gender Trouble
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Nimble fingers, stereotype of third world workers. Corresponding stereotypes on men, they are less, not hardworking, more demanding. Gender script is found in these factories. Different kind of gender performance, gendered understanding, how men and women interact and perform. It"s not about dominant ideology, ideological structure, gendered structure is produced. In this process they are also producing genders, different ways and performances of gender. Poststructuralist understanding of power and subjects: michel foucault"s and power (1926-1984): if you die, you don"t do certain things, try to kill a king, you die, power lies in insidious way in the current society. They acting out their femininity and masculinity, looking attractive, it is a different kind of power. Panopticon: the guard is watching you all the time as the guard becomes yourself: interpellation: particular kind of desire, calling somebody, calling out (who is wearing a hat?) positive interpellation happens when there is a response.
