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Judith Butler Quotes

Judith Butler quotes

American Philosopher February 24, 1956

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Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population; the state is not subject to the rule of law, but law can be suspended or deployed tactically and partially to suit the requirements of a state that seeks more and more to allocate sovereign power to its executive and administrative powers. The law is suspended in the name of "sovereignty" of the nation, where "sovereignty" denotes the task of... Judith Butler
Judith Butler quote: "Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not,..."
Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. Judith Butler
Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media. Judith Butler
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? Judith Butler
Judith Butler quote: "I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer..."
I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist. Judith Butler
Relationality [is] not only [a] descriptive or historical fact of our formation, but also an ongoing normative dimension of our social and political lives, one in which we are compelled to take stock of our interdependence. Judith Butler
Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination. Judith Butler
The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities. Judith Butler
Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive? Judith Butler
Judith Butler quote: "Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread."
Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread. Judith Butler
Judith Butler quote: "To operate within the matrix ofpower is not the same as to..."
To operate within the matrix ofpower is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination. Judith Butler
There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results. Judith Butler

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