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A Comparative Study between Gender Trouble and Undoing Gender by Judith Butler: My Identity to Beside Myself, Gender to Humanness
Abstract
This essay aims to study the turn of Butler’s 'feminist and gender theory' to 'ethics for the others' combined with politics sustaining the same genealogical viewpoints, comparing Gender Trouble and Undoing Gender: 1) the turn from ‘I’ to ‘we’ based on the constitutional heteronomy; 2) the turn from ‘gender’ to ‘human’ mainly based on becoming human of transsex or intersex people; 3) the turn from ‘you inside of me’ to ‘you before me’ focused on the priority of others from ethical points of view. As Butler said in Undoing Gender, we are undone by each other because nobody can’t always stay static, and my body is not solely mine in the social world dominated by cultural norms. The turn from Gender Trouble to Undoing Gender can be explained in three points: 1) to enlarge the ontological epistemology from me to us; 2) to transform from the sophisticated theoretical positions to ethical and political practice to consider social minorities; 3) to place more emphasis on cultural translation practice as a politically correct way to accept the challenge of differences than colaitional politics in the era of this multicultural period. While Gender Trouble participated in theorizing indecisive, unstable and free floating sex, gender, sexuality as an effect of regulatory power and disciplinary discourse in non-identity politics with the famous statement of “sex is always already gender,” Undoing Gender keenly recognizes the practical phases of ethical and political life of minorities like LGBTQI. At this point, the significance of cultural translation practice appears to accept the differences of queers without discrimination to live a livable and viable life. Last but not least, the genealogical viewpoints last consistently to stay skeptical to the fundamental assumptions such as a origin or a cause and also to reveal its historical context and discursive effects of the power regime. It requires permanent provisionality about gender possibilities and in particular about what it means to be human.
- keywords
- 『젠더 트러블』, 『젠더 허물기』, 구성적 타율성, 관계적 감성, 상호의존, 합주 행위, 나 자신을 잃고, 탈아, 계보학, 데이비드 라이머, 페미니즘 철학, 문화번역, 살만한 삶, 정치 윤리, Gender Trouble, Undoing Gender, constitutive heteronomy, relational emotions, interdependency, acting in concert, beside oneself, ec-stasy, genealogy, David Reimer, feminist philosophy, cultural translation, livable life, political ethics
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