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"Who devises the protocols of 'clarity' and whose interests do they serve? What is foreclosed by the insistence on parochial standards of transparency as requisite for all communication? What does 'transparency' keep obscure?" (Gender Trouble, XIX)
That person should be packed in a rocket and launched into space.
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"Whose desire might qualify as the desire of the state?" (Undoing Gender, 111)
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"When we consider what feminist thought might be in relation to survival, a different set of questions emerges: Whose life is counted as a life?" (Undoing Gender, 205)
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"What if the music turns out to be Mahler?" (Undoing Gender, 146)
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"Why would I talk that way?" (Undoing Gender, 157)
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"Most importantly, we see the violence done in the name of preserving western values, and we have to ask whether this violence is one of the values that we seek to defend...
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"My question follows from here: is the enjoyment in speaking about sex an enjoyment about the sex or the speaking?" (Undoing Gender, 165)
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"And what about the body?" (Undoing Gender, 165)
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"What constitutes the limit of the thinkable, the narratable, the intelligible?" (Undoing Gender, 156)
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"Which bodies come to matter—and why?" (Bodies That Matter xii)
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"To what extent is 'identity' a normative ideal rather than a descriptive feature of experience?" (Gender Trouble, 23)
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"How has the good life been conceived such that women’s lives have not been included in its conceptualization?" (Undoing Gender, 205)
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"Whose prerogative is it to live?" (Undoing Gender, 205)
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"What happens when terms such as butch and femme emerge not as simple copies of heterosexual masculinity and heterosexuality femininity, but as expropriations that expose the nonnecessary status of their assumed meanings?" (Undoing Gender 209)
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"Do you want to have a penis?" (Undoing Gender, 70)
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"Is this, in fact, possible?" (Undoing Gender, 94)
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"If a term becomes questionable, does that mean it cannot be used any longer, and that we can only use terms that we already know how to master?" (Undoing Gender, 181)
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"What is the good life?" (Undoing Gender, 205)
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"Who devises the protocols of 'clarity' and whose interests do they serve?" (Gender Trouble, XIX)
Absolutely loving how the so-called class warriors on the hard left are praising Judith Butler to the hilt despite her being the elite of the elite top cat in pointless incomprehensible academia. Even Camille Paglia tells me she can't understand a word she's saying.
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"What would the good life be for women?" (Undoing Gender, 205)
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"By what norms am I constrained as I begin to ask what I may become?" (Undoing Gender, 58)
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"Why can’t the framework for sexual difference itself move beyond binarity into multiplicity?" (Undoing Gender, 197)
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"What kind of dissonance is experienced by those who no longer have a home in one country, and do not yet have a home in a new country, but live in a suspended zone of citizenship?" (Undoing Gender, 195)
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"And to what extent does gender, coherent gender, secure a life as livable?" (Undoing Gender, 205)
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"How do we decide when life begins and ends, and how do we think life against life?" (Undoing Gender, 205)
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"Theorizing from the ruins of the Logos invites the following question: 'What about the materiality of the body?'" (Bodies That Matter ix)
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"So what if new forms of gender are possible, how does this affect the ways that we live and the concrete needs of the human community?" (Undoing Gender 219)
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"But what is this sexual difference?" (Undoing Gender, 185)
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"How does one 'become' a gender?" (Gender Trouble, 141)
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"And is this an allegory with closure?" (Undoing Gender, 62)
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"Is sex to gender as feminine is to masculine?" (Bodies That Matter 4)
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"Am I a gender after all?" (Undoing Gender, 15)
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"Subjectively, we ask: Who can I become in such a world where the meanings and limits of the subject are set out in advance for me?" (Undoing Gender, 58)
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"If gender is constructed through relations of power and, specifically, normative constraints that not only produce but also regulate various bodily beings, how might agency be derived from this notion of gender as the effect of productive constraint?" (Bodies That Matter x)
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"There is the question of when 'life' begins, and then the question of when “human” life begins, when the 'human' begins; who knows, who is equipped or entitled to know, whose knowledge holds sway here, whose knowledge functions as power here?" (Undoing Gender 225)
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"What does desire desire?" (Undoing Gender, 137)
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"If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?" (Gender Trouble, 63)
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"How do we get from parody to politics?" (Undoing Gender 213)
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"How to cross it without crossing it, without domesticating its terms?" (Undoing Gender, 177)
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"Are there not other ways of feeling possible, intelligible, even real, apart from the sphere of state recognition?" (Undoing Gender, 112)
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"At what psychic price does normative gender become established?" (Undoing Gender, 144)
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"What if the very order is exclusionary or violent?" (Undoing Gender 221)
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"Thus, the question is no longer, How is gender constituted as and through a certain interpretation of sex? (a question that leaves the 'matter' of sex untheorized), but rather Through what regulatory norms is sex itself materialized?" (Bodies That Matter 10)
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"What would it mean to exclude from the field of potential legitimation those who are outside of marriage, those who live nonmonogamously, those who live alone, those who are in whatever arrangements they are in that are not the marriage form?" (Undoing Gender, 115-116)
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"If gender is not an artifice to be taken on or taken off at will and, hence, not an effect of choice, how are we to understand the constitutive and compelling status of gender norms without falling into, the trap of cultural determinism?" (Bodies That Matter x)
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"Is this what I desire?" (Undoing Gender, 113)
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"Who cares for life as it emerges?" (Undoing Gender, 205)
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"What counts as a coherent gender?" (Undoing Gender, 58)
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"Another way of putting this is the following: 'what, given the contemporary order of being, can I be?'" (Undoing Gender, 58)
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"Can the one who poses such questions know the conditions of his or her own asking?" (Undoing Gender 230-231)
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"And what happens when I begin to become that for which there is no place within the given regime of truth?" (Undoing Gender, 58)
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"Whose desire might qualify as a desire for state legitimation?" (Undoing Gender, 111)
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"Is it fair to assume that this human was not its gender before it became its gender?" (Gender Trouble, 141)
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"What does this way of thinking sexual difference do to our understanding of gender?" (Undoing Gender, 186)
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"Can this body be re-membered, be put back together again?" (Gender Trouble, 161)
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"And how is it that treating the materiality of sex as a given presupposes and consolidates the normative conditions of its own emergence?" (Bodies That Matter 10)
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...that is, another mark of 'western-ness' that we fear might be lost if we agree to live in a more culturally complex and hybrid world?" (Undoing Gender 231)
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"If it is symbolic, is it changeable?" (Undoing Gender 212)
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"Who devises the protocols of 'clarity' and whose interests do they serve?" (Gender Trouble, XIX)
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"Insofar as it relies on this construal, the sex/gender distinction founders along parallel lines; if gender is the social significance that sex assumes within a given culture—and for the sake of argument we will let 'social' and 'cultural' stand in an uneasy interchangeability..
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"For instance, to what extent is heterosexual jealousy often compounded by an inability to avow same-sex desire?" (Undoing Gender, 138)
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"But how does one think politics from such a site of unrepresentability?" (Undoing Gender, 106)
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"But what if the very categories of the human have excluded those who should be operating within its terms, who do not accept the modes of reasoning and justifying 'validity claims' that have been proffered by western forms of rationalism?" (Undoing Gender 221)
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"Is there not a self who identifies?" (Undoing Gender, 150)
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"How could there be this ironic and inevitable distance between knowing a thing to be true and acting in accordance with that knowledge?" (Undoing Gender 239)
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"When s/he desires his/her girlfriend’s desire, what is it that s/he wants?" (Undoing Gender, 143)
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"Whose world is legitimated as real?" (Undoing Gender, 58)
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"But who is this brother?" (Undoing Gender, 169)
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"Although the very existence of a taboo against incest presumes that a family structure is already there, for how else would one understand the prohibition on sexual relations with members of one’s own family without a prior conception of family?" (Undoing Gender, 157)
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"What forms of loss do those who are compelled to emigrate undergo?" (Undoing Gender, 195)
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"What constitutes *the limit of what can be thought as true*?" (Undoing Gender, 156)
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"Under what conditions should life come into being, and through what means?" (Undoing Gender, 205)
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"What threat of death is delivered to those who do not live gender according to its accepted norms?" (Undoing Gender, 205)
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"Why would it be that we arrange everything so that we might, with difficulty and courage, speak our desire before another human being, and await the words they will speak in return?" (Undoing Gender, 162)
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"What forms do the pains and sufferings of continued colonization take?" (Undoing Gender, 195)
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"Is it a deed, a desire, an anxiety, and abiding guilt for which the confessional form serves as a balm?" (Undoing Gender, 165)
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"And if I persisted in this notion that bodies were in some way constructed, perhaps I really thought that words alone had the power to craft bodies from their own linguistic substance?" (Bodies That Matter x)
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"Have we ever yet known the 'human'?" (Undoing Gender, 222)
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"Or is it simply that the terms do not function in quite the same way as they once did?" (Undoing Gender, 179)
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"Were we right to presume the binary of man and woman when so many gendered lives cannot assume that binary?" (Undoing Gender, 144)
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"The questions are: how best to have them, how most productively to stage them, and how to act in ways that acknowledge the irreversible complexity of who we are?" (Undoing Gender, 176)
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...then why shy away from the fact that there may be ways that masculinity emerges in women, and that feminine and masculine do not belong to differently sexed bodies?" (Undoing Gender, 197)
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"What is foreclosed by the insistence on parochial standards of transparency as requisite for all communication?" (Gender Trouble, XIX)
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"And in what world, under what conditions, does not liking that type of clothing provide evidence for being the wrong gender?" (Undoing Gender, 70)
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"Are we stopped in time, made more regular and coherent than we necessarily want to be, when we submit to the norms in order to achieve the entitlements one needs, and the status one desires?" (Undoing Gender, 81)
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"Sexual difference—is it to be thought of as a framework by which we are defeated in advance?" (Undoing Gender, 177)
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"In what senses, then, is gender an act?" (Gender Trouble, 178)
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"Is the embodiment working?" (Undoing Gender, 67)
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"But what if those terms no longer do the descriptive work that we need them to do?" (Undoing Gender, 81)
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"Or is part of what it means to 'recognize' the Other to recognize that he or she comes, of necessity, with a history which does not have oneself as its center?" (Undoing Gender, 146)
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"Is it, therefore, not a thing, not a fact, not a presupposition, but rather a demand for rearticulation that never quite vanishes—but also never quite appears?" (Undoing Gender, 186)
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