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Showing 1 to 20 of 121 for “"Judith Butler"”.
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Becoming Otherwise: Politics, Metaphysics and Power in Judith Butler and Alfred North Whitehead
… 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 …
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“He was the Mirror of the World”: Social Constructivist Reflections in Le Roman de Silence
… de Silence</em>. Using the framework laid out by Judith Butler, it seeks to understand the way that the protagonist's performance of gender and class reflects the social context in which she lives. </p>
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Gender at Work: The Role of Habitus and Gender-Performance in Service Industry Occupations
… primarily from the works of Pierre Bourdieu and Judith Butler. Data includes an exploratory focus group, non-participant observations and interviews with women currently or formerly employed as bartenders, bar backs, servers, or hostesses. The main themes that emerged included how habitus is …
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Getting Over the Self: The Decentered Subject and Contemporary Political Theory
… contemporary political theory. Using the work of Judith Butler and William Connolly, I argue that a perspective that refuses to assume any foundational premises on which essential subjectivity can be established leads to a more ethical negotiation of difference and, ultimately, to a re-invigorated …
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Bending and breaking the boundary between horror and comedy: an exploration of the existentialist function of the abject in the works of John Landis and Woody Allen
… Edgar Allan Poe’s effect, (2) Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler’s abject, (3) Sigmund Freud’s “uncanny,” and (4) Mikhail Baktin’s carnivalesque. The chapter will conclude with John Landis’ portions of The Twilight Zone: The Movie, as a linked history that welcomes exploration of Landis alongside …
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I've been dressing up like a man: An ideological criticism of "Transparent"
… rhetorical concept of identification as well as Judith Butler and John Sloop’s theories pertaining to gender identity in order to assess how this series represents gender. Analyzing key scenes in Transparent’s first and second seasons, this thesis argues that Transparent offers several …
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Gritty Girls Undone: The Unraveling of Gender Fluidity in Pat Cadigan's Synners
… gender-fluid society. Drawing upon the work of Judith Butler, Kaye Mitchell, Karen Cadora, and other important feminist critics, this thesis analyzes Cadigan's attempt at positing a fictional world in which gender is not fixed such that individuals can move back and forth between masculine and …
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Just Between Us Girls: Discursive Spaces from America's First Gay Magazine to the World's Last Website for Queer Women, 1947-2019
… conversation with canonical queer theorists like Judith Butler, Eve Sedgwick, and Jack Halberstam. Analyzing and contextualizing discursive spaces like <em>Vice Versa</em> (1947-1948), <em>The Ladder</em> (1956-1972), <em>The Furies</em> (1972-1973), <em>AfterEllen</em>, and <em>Autostraddle …
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Deconstructing Biopolitical and Performative Modes of Gender in Spanish Science Fiction
… Utilizing the theories of feminist philosopher Judith Butler and sociologist Jemima Repo, we uncover associations between the fictional and theoretical that have seldom been studied in conjunction. The paper aims to demonstrate Almodóvar and Barceló’s unique narratives free from the confines of …
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Between life and death : HIV and AIDS and representation in South Africa
… work of cultural theorists Giorgio Agamben and Judith Butler to consider how conditions of life in South Africa in the time of HIV and AIDS both articulate with and exceed the bio-political. The dissertation first presents a brief account of the history of the epidemic and government responses …
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Re-envisioning female operatic roles in contemporary performance from a feminist perspective
… of identity including Maurice Hamington and Judith Butler to establish a clear picture of why women were so frequently presented in an oppressive and subordinating way, and how new practice can re-envision these characters to improve accessibility and ultimately, achieve depictions of …
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«Η ανθρώπινη αξία ανάμεσα στο Ιερό, την Ευπάθεια και τη Διαλεκτική του Διαφωτισμού: Μια σύγκριση της Σιμόν Βέιλ, της Τζούντιθ Butler και της κριτικής των Τέοντορ Αντόρνο και Μαξ Χορκχάιμερ»
… Simone Weil, την πολιτική και ηθική θεωρία της Judith Butler και την κριτική ανάλυση των Theodor Adorno και Max Horkheimer. Κεντρικός άξονας της έρευνας είναι ο τρόπος με τον οποίο το υποκείμενο τοποθετείται ανάμεσα στην ιερότητα της ύπαρξης, τη θεμελιώδη ευπάθεια (vulnerability) και τις …
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She Swims in Silence: Spatial Narrative, Women's labor in Contemporary Art
… and interwoven with ideas from philosophers like Judith Butler and Nicholas Mirzoeff, interrogates the gendered silences in official history and highlights the tension between state mythologies and personal memories. In doing so, the exhibition as an interdisciplinary form of research not only …
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The Amazon in antiquity and on television : deployments of a figure within gender (re)negotiations
… as Simone de Beauvoir, Teresa de Lauretis and Judith Butler in order to establish a position from which to address gender and the important questions of gender subversion and transformation, I examine, using the method of discourse analysis, the textual figure of the Amazon and its …
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Women Without Faces: Exemplary Control in Ovid's Amores 2
… the idea of gender performativity as proposed by Judith Butler, I argue that the poet implies the closure of erotic elegy as a genre of Roman literature, poising Amores as the ultimate gendered product of its genre. This is achieved by the poet through his characterization of himself and his …
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Wearing Yourself or Dressing the Part: Navigating Workplace Dress Codes as Queer, Androgynous Women
… that is informed by both Erving Goffman and Judith Butler, I analyze the women’s decision-making around managing their appearance for work, and the relationship they perceive between their clothing, queer identity, and sense of self. I also explore the multiple challenges that participants …
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Silence as politics : witness and resistance in contemplation.
… work of J.L. Austin, Haig Khatchadourian, and Judith Butler to that of Sarah Coakley, Dorothee Sölle, Meister Eckhart, and Howard Thurman. Contemplative silence thus appears not as retreat or resignation, but as a deliberate act of relational and embodied vulnerability—a radical openness to the …
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SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE AND INTERNALIZED SEXUAL PREJUDICE: PERFORMING MASCULINITY AT THE SUMMIT CHURCH
… theoretical concepts from Raewyn Connell, Judith Butler, and Pierre Bourdieu to identify and examine particular practices evident at the Summit Church in Durham, NC. I theorize how collective beliefs become embodied by church participants. I explain how gender and sexuality are socially …
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Fetishizing Southern Brutality: An Intersectional Analysis of Animalistic Dehumanization in Interracial Pornography
… using these historical tropes with the work of Judith Butler and Patricia Hill Collins as a lens to examine contemporary mainstream pornography, this thesis addresses the violent humiliation and dehumanization of oppressed bodies that have become standard in porn. My first and second chapters …
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"Fracturing the Space of the Real": Deriving a Korean Queer Theory from the Shamanic Feminist Poetics of Kim Hyesoon
… work through a methodology of resignification (Judith Butler) and disidentification (José Esteban Muñoz) to argue that her agentive resignification of femininity and yin theorizes a disidentificatory performance-space [hyonbin] where queer Korean subjects enact worldmaking and destabilize …
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