Butler

Temsile Direnme Suç ve Göçerlik: Thelma ve Louise’in Dünyası

by Hakan Altun

Akdeniz İletişim / 2009 (12)

RESISTANCE TO REPRESENTATION, CRIME AND NOMADISM: THELMA AND LOUISE’S WORLD

Thelma and Louise, as a cult... more RESISTANCE TO REPRESENTATION, CRIME AND NOMADISM: THELMA AND LOUISE’S WORLD

Thelma and Louise, as a cult film, attempts to problematize gender roles and examines gender as a cultural and social construction through the lens of Butler’s “performative” concept. Thus, Thelma and Louise, challenges patriarchal ideologies of gender construction and redefine a new space for women outside of patriarchal control. This article uses the notion of nomadism to analyze power relations. Journey, which is central to this work, re-constructs gender via nomadic performances. New performances on new road that women engage set them free. They leave the place of being representation of patriarchal images and occupy new subject position as an agent. Eventually, Thelma and Louise, produce feminist catharsis to empower woman spectator.

Dekonstruktion und Herrschaft: Politische Implikationen antiessentialistischer Theorie

by Petra Schaper-Rinkel

Dekonstruktion und Herrschaft: politische Implikationen antiessentialistischer Theorie
Schaper-Rinkel, Petra
Quelle: Politisierung und Ent-Politisierung als performative Praxis. Schulze, Detlef Georgia; Berghahn, Sabine; Wolf, Frieder Otto (Hrsg.) S. 42-57. ; Münster: Verl. Westfäl. Dampfboot, 2006

Becoming Sissy - A response to David McInnes

by Cristyn Davies

Includes D. McInnes chapter first.  Judith Butler in Conversation: Analysing the texts and talk of everyday life, B. Davies (ed.),  New York: Routledge, 2008, pp.117-133.