Los cuerpos del sistema sexo/género : Aportes teóricos de Judith Butler

En el presente artículo se presentan algunos lineamientos generales sobre la distinción sexo/género y su impacto en la delimitación de la categoría cuerpo en la teoría feminista. Luego se ofrecen argumentos que cuestionan el dimorfismo sexual en términos naturales, a partir de conceptualizaciones de Judith Butler, de la ambigüedad de cuerpos intersexuales y de ciertas prácticas corporales subversivas. En esta línea, se exponen aproximaciones esencialistas y constructivistas en relación con el cuerpo, ilustradas a partir de los planteos de Luce Irigaray y Judith Butler. Finalmente, se concluye la necesidad de someter a debate la categoría sexo como ocasión privilegiada para reformular las múltiples conceptualizaciones que involucran la dimensión del cuerpo

Los cuerpos del sistema sexo/género : Aportes teóricos de Judith Butler

En el presente artículo se presentan algunos lineamientos generales sobre la distinción sexo/género y su impacto en la delimitación de la categoría cuerpo en la teoría feminista. Luego se ofrecen argumentos que cuestionan el dimorfismo sexual en términos naturales, a partir de conceptualizaciones de Judith Butler, de la ambigüedad de cuerpos intersexuales y de ciertas prácticas corporales subversivas. En esta línea, se exponen aproximaciones esencialistas y constructivistas en relación con el cuerpo, ilustradas a partir de los planteos de Luce Irigaray y Judith Butler. Finalmente, se concluye la necesidad de someter a debate la categoría sexo como ocasión privilegiada para reformular las múltiples conceptualizaciones que involucran la dimensión del cuerpo

Difference and Hierarchy Revisited by Feminism

Drawing heavily on the work of classicist Page duBois, which eloquently explains the emergence, in ancient Greece, of hierarchy and of what is still understood today as the great chain of being (scala naturae: male, female, slave, barbarian, animal), this paper analyzes the age-old negative conotations of the concept of difference in western culture, considers the reinvention of difference as “positive” by Rosi Braidotti (after Deleuze & Guattari), and reassesses the efforts of several other feminist philosophers (e.g. Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler, Gayatry Spivak, Drucilla Cornell) to counter Lacan on the impossibility of “speaking women” beyond the dominant (male) philosophical discourse. Or, to paraphrase Marie Cardinal, their efforts to find “les mots pour le dire”.

Female Exiles in Language: Reading for New Poetic Subjects in Modern and Contemporary Feminist Experimental Poetry

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06

Propuestas para una reconceptualización surrealista y postmoderna de la sexualidad femenina en los textos de Cristina Escofet e Isabel Allende

Female sexuality has commonly been viewed as the passive counterpart of male sexuality. Building upon Adrienne Rich's theory of compulsive heterosexuality, I would suggest that the fundamental location of this problem lies within the subconscious. Cristina Escofet's stance on this issue is to argue in favor of a deconstruction of Jungian archetypes, revealing their constructed rather than intrinsic character. In this dissertation, I study representative texts by Escofet and Isabel Allende and show not only how they depict patriarchal compulsive heterosexuality, but also try to reconceptualize female sexuality through surrealist and postmodern techniques such as self-reflection, dialogue with our double or Other, and sensorial perception. These techniques are designed to create a new epistemology of jouissance and excess, as defined by contemporary French theory. The significance of my study resides in the interdisciplinary analysis of female sexuality in Hispanic feminist writers. The first chapter proposes that surrealism, postmodernism, and feminism are theoretical frameworks which create new paradigms for social change. In their feminist philosophies, Escofet and Allende emphasize the use of subconscious knowledge as a means of helping them understand the world and create alternative realities. The second chapter shows how Escofet and Allende deconstruct the mysoginist archetype of Eve, which has been largely responsible for identifying women's sexual identity with the disreputable qualities of the femme fatale and whose mirror-image has long plagued women. In accordance with this stereotype, Lillith (Adam's sexually active ex-partner), has typically been portrayed as the negative Other, and for generations the she-devil myth which surrounds her has resurfaced in the media, where she assumes the role of innumerable evil female characters. In the third chapter, I examine how class and race differences have been used to intensify the demonization of different types of sexuality. In the same manner as Lillith and Eve, black and indigenous characters express dissent by retelling their stories in words and performance, and by seeking to form a dialog with their readers. The last chapter deals with the importance of the senses for female characters as they try to create their own sexuality from the fragmented bodies we find in surrealist and postmodern art. In this section we shall see how Luce Irigaray and Hélène Cixous's theories about multiple sexualities are in evidence when Escofet and Allende reconceptualize female sexuality. As no previous scholarship has analyzed the use of the subconscious, the senses, and performance when understanding female sexuality in Latin American literature, this dissertation seeks to provide a tentative exploration of the issues that may help to open up a new field of research in Hispanic feminist cultural studies.

Inventing "French Feminism:" A Critical History

French Feminism has little to do with feminism in France. While in the U.S. this now canonical body of work designates almost exclusively the work of three theorists—Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva—in France, these same thinkers are actually associated with the rejection of feminism. If some scholars have on this basis passionately denounced French Feminism as an American invention, there exists to date no comprehensive analysis of that invention or of its effects. Why did theorists who were at best marginal to feminist thought and political practice in France galvanize feminist scholars working in the United States? Why does French Feminism provoke such an intense affective response in France to this date? Drawing on the fields of feminist and queer studies, literary studies, and history, “Inventing ‘French Feminism:’ A Critical History” offers a transnational account of the emergence and impact of one of U.S. academic feminism’s most influential bodies of work. The first half of the dissertation argues that, although French Feminism has now been dismissed for being biologically essentialist and falsely universal, feminists working in the U.S. academy of the 1980s, particularly feminist literary critics and postcolonial feminist critics, deployed the work of Cixous, Irigaray, and Kristeva to displace what they perceived as U.S. feminist literary criticism’s essentialist reliance on the biological sex of the author and to challenge U.S. academic feminism’s inattention to racial differences between women. French Feminism thus found traction among feminist scholars to the extent that it was perceived as addressing some of U.S. feminism’s most pressing political issues. The second half of the dissertation traces French feminist scholars’ vehement rejection of French Feminism to an affectively charged split in the French women’s liberation movement of the 1970s and shows that this split has resulted in an entrenched opposition between sexual difference and materialist feminism, an opposition that continues to structure French feminist debates to this day. “Inventing ‘French Feminism:’ A Critical History” ends by arguing that in so far as the U.S. invention of French Feminism has contributed to the emergence of U.S. queer theory, it has also impeded its uptake in France. Taken as a whole, this dissertation thus implicitly argues that the transnational circulation of ideas is simultaneously generative and disabling.

Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics

From futures research, pattern recognition algorithms, nuclear waste disposal and surveillance technologies, to smart weapons systems, contemporary fiction and art, this book shows that we are now living in a world imagined and engineered during the Cold War. Drawing on theorists such as Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, Friedrich Kittler, Michel Serres, Peter Sloterdijk, Carl Schmitt, Bernard Stiegler and Paul Virilio this collection makes connections between Cold War material and conceptual technologies, as they relate to the arts, society, and culture.

Feminismen i en psykologisk kriminalroman. : En genusteoretisk stickprovskontroll.

En genusteoretisk stickprovskontroll. Uppsatsen genomlyser Camilla Grebes Älskaren från huvudkontoret ur ett genusteoretiskt perspektiv med focus på Luce Irigaray teorier. Inledningsvis presenteras Luce Irigaray övergripande och hennes arbete ställs i relation till Simone de Beauvoirs. Irigarays teorier om maskulint och feminint subjekt gås igenom och teoridelen avslutas med ett destillat av teorierna här kallat; typiska drag. Utifrån dessa typiska drag analyseras delar, utvalda med heuristisk metod, av Camilla Grebes roman Älskaren från huvudkontoret från 2015. I analysen diskuteras utöver undersökningen och de presenterade teorierna även paralleller till Janice Radways Kvinnor läser romantik: om samspelet mellan text och kontext. Resultaten av undersökningen och slutsatsen diskuteras och ifrågasätts.

Mise en lumière de la dimension éthique dans le discours des femmes sur la pornographie

La question des rapports entre «éthique et féminisme» a été soulevée ces derniers temps par diverses auteures. Alors que par exemple Luce Irigaray en 1984 et Marilyn French en 1985 consacraient chacune un livre au sujet, Nancy Huston et Françoise Collin abordaient ce thème dans le numéro de mars 1985 de 1'ex-revue La Vie en Rose intitulé «Les féministes se critiquent», numéro visant à faire une espèce de bilan du développement du féminisme au cours des dernières années…

La igualdad de género : perspectivas del feminismo liberal y del feminismo de la diferencia a través de las novelas dimensión de la angustia y las andariegas

La presente disertación tiene como objetivo analizar la «igualdad de género» en el feminismo liberal y en el feminismo de la diferencia a través de las novelas literarias Dimensión de la angustia y Las andariegas. La influencia de algunas corrientes políticas puede permear ideológicamente herramientas como la literatura, que a su vez, puede cumplir una función de denuncia social basada en dicha influencia. Así, en Dimensión de la angustia se muestra cómo la igualdad de género es percibida como la consecución jurídica de una situación igualitaria, premisa básica del feminismo liberal; y, en Las andariegas se plasma la igualdad de género como la necesidad de crear una identidad propia de la mujer alejada de la creación social de «lo femenino», hipótesis que maneja el feminismo de la diferencia. En este sentido, para la realización del presente análisis se empleó el enfoque feminista, y se hizo uso de fuentes primarias como las obras Vindicación de los Derechos de la Mujer de Mary Wollstonecraft, y Espéculo de la otra mujer de Luce Irigaray, y como fuentes secundarias se usaron las novelas Dimensión de la Angustia y Las andariegas.

Les Rendez-Vous de Chantal

Lo scopo di questa tesi vuole essere di dimostrare come Chantal Akerman abbia risposto concretamente all’appello di Laura Mulvey e delle altre teoriche della FFT per un contro-cinema femminile e lo abbia fatto principalmente attraverso tre strategie: la pratica di un cinema sperimentale e in particolare strutturale/minimalista di stampo newyorkese; la riscrittura di codici narrativi della Nouvelle Vague francese; l’espressione dei contenuti della teoria femminista e soprattutto di pensatrici come Hélène Cixous e Luce Irigaray.

I «Ricordi» iI don Bosco Affidati Al Primi Missionari salesiane della loro attualità alla luce della «Redemptoris missio»

Pontificia Universitá Gregoriana