Event overview
Vikki Chalklin - "Beyond Performativity?"
This reading group session will explore the continued use value of performativity as one of Queer Theory’s predominant, and most controversial, concepts. The first of the two short readings will return to Judith Butler’s seminal thesis on the power of performativity for gender theory with her groundbreaking Gender Trouble. We will then consider the critiques and limits of performativity, as well as more recent reformulations that have reinvigorated the concept and continue to make it a useful tool for theorising subjectivity.
Readings:
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, 1990. ‘From interiority to gender performatives’ from Chapter 3 ‘Subversive Bodily Acts’ (p183-93 in 2006 Routledge Classics Edition)
Vikki Bell, Culture and Performance: The Challenge of Ethics, Politics and Feminist Theory, 2007. ‘Performativity Challenged?’ from Chapter 6 ‘Performativity Challenged? Creativity and the Return of Interiority’ (p108-20)
PLEASE NOTE: These readings are available as PDFs on the GLITS Spring Term learn.gold.ac.uk page. If you do not have access to learn.gold please contact Eva Aldea (email below).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Feb 2011 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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