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Theorizing Gender - Asop, Fitzsimons, Lennon #1
“think of our body images as modes of experiencing our actual concrete body”
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Theorizing Gender - Asop, Fitzsimons, Lennon #2
“Gender is biology-as-lived.”
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Theorizing Gender - Asop, Fitzsimons, Lennon #3
“the opposition between the material and cultural is undermined”
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Theorizing Gender - Asop, Fitzsimons, Lennon #4
“Our gender identities are modes of experiencing our particular bodies and not simply an attempt to identify with something external.”
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Theorizing Gender - Asop, Fitzsimons, Lennon #5
“a recognition of the corporeality of our gendered identities”
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Moira Gatens
“anatomical body is itself a theoretical object, for the discourse of anatomy is produced by human beings in culture”
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The Self: Beyond Postmodern Crisis – Vitz and Felch, Ed. #1
“It is a self without a center, created by a huge variety of interactions with different groups and environments.”
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The Self: Beyond Postmodern Crisis – Vitz and Felch, Ed. #2
“slippage in the coherence of the self”
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Kenneth Gergen
the “saturated self”
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Kenneth Gergen
“one acquires a pastiche-like personality”
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Sigmund Freud
Eros and death instinct act together in the id...one group of instincts defends itself against the other.
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Identity, Culture, and the Postmodern World - Madan Sarup #1
“we construct our identity at the same time as we tell our life-story”
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Identity, Culture, and the Postmodern World - Madan Sarup #2
“Identity is contradictory and fractured. Identity in postmodern thought is not a thing; the self is necessarily incomplete, unfinished - it is ‘the subject in process’.”
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Identity, Culture, and the Postmodern World - Madan Sarup #3
”the words we speak situate us in our gender and our class. Through language, we come to ‘know’ who we are.”
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Queer Disasporas - Patton and Sánchez-Eppler, ed.
“When a practitioner of “homosexual acts”, or a body that carries any of many queering marks moves between officially designated spaces - nation, region, metropole, neighborhood, or even culture, gender, religion, disease - intricate realignments of identity, politics, and desire take place.”
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“Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory” - Judith Butler #1
“a verb, not a noun”
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“Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory” - Judith Butler #2
“Gender is what is put on…not a natural or linguistic given.”
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“Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory” - Judith Butler #3
“those who fail to do their gender right are regularly punished”
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“Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory” - Judith Butler #4
“a complicated process of appropriation”
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“Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory” - Judith Butler #5
“the authors of gender become entranced by their own fictions”
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