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	Gender - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Likewise, a wide variety of phenomena may have gendered characteristics ascribed to them, either by analogy to male and female bodies, such as with the gender of connectors and fasteners, or due to social norms, such as interpreting the color pink as feminine and blue as masculine.
		Gender assignment, when there are any indications that genital sex might not be decisive in a particular case, is normally not defined by any single definition, but by a combination of conditions, include chromoses and gonads.
		The gender of a connector is determined by the structure of its primary functional components, e.g., the conductors of an electrical connector, or the load-bearing parts of a fastener, and not by secondary features such as covers, shields or handles that may be installed for environmental protection, safe operation, etc.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gender (2341 words)

	Gender Trouble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire Butler begins Gender Trouble with an attack on one of the central assumptions of feminist theory: the supposition that there exists an identity and a subject that requires representation in politics and language.
		Sexed bodies cannot signify without gender, and the apparent existence of sex prior to discourse and cultural imposition is merely an effect of the functioning of gender.
		Instead, in her introduction of the central idea of Gender Trouble, Butler argues that gender is performative: no identity exists behind the acts that supposedly “express” gender, and these acts constitute—rather than express—the illusion of the stable gender identity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gender_Trouble (1298 words)

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		Gender, then, as the identification with one sex, or one object (like the mother) is a fantasy, a set of internalized images, and not a set of properties governed by the body and its organ configuration.
		Gender, Butler concludes, is thus not a primary category, but an attribute, a set of secondary narrative effects.
		Gender is thus a fantasy enacted by "corporeal styles that constitute bodily significations." In other words, gender is an act, a performance, a set of manipulated codes, costumes, rather than a core aspect of essential identity.
	www.colorado.edu /English/ENGL2012Klages/butler.html (1031 words)

	Jennifer Kryszak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gender Trouble assuredly address the concerns of the community from which she was writing.
		Gender Trouble, it is to insist upon the extension of this legitimacy to bodies that have been regarded as false, unreal, and unintelligible.
		Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.
	www.gtu.edu /library/Gravitas/Spring2002-6.html (3743 words)

	:: Welcome to Judith Butler :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In her most influential book Gender Trouble (1990), Butler argued that feminism had made a mistake by trying to assert that 'women' were a group with common characteristics and interests.
		Butler argues that we all put on a gender performance, whether traditional or not, anyway, and so it is not a question of whether to do a gender performance, but what form that performance will take.
		Well, the call for gender trouble has obvious media implications, since the mass media is the primary means for alternative images to be disseminated.
	www.bbgunengine.com /trouble.html (663 words)

	Performing Gender
		For Bordo, this “gender skepticism” is dangerous for feminism; while she acknowledges that the binary gender construction is a cultural phenomenon that manifests itself on sexed bodies, she stresses that a complete dismantling of gender is useless while the binary produces material effects.
		When Butler describes gender as “an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts” (179), she blends the visual metaphors of performance theory with the liminal possibilities of queer theory and the use of “gender” as a concept from feminist theory.
		As in Gender Trouble, when she removes the subject from the body to reveal a continuous performative state, Butler removes the body from materiality in Bodies that Matter to reveal the very constructed “feminine” gender category.
	www.gwu.edu /~medusa/2001/performing.html (2959 words)

	20th WCP: Gender Identity without Gender Prescriptions: Dealing with Essentialism and Constructionism in Feminist ...
		Feminist scholarship is replete with gender identities assumed to be common that are in fact the universalization of experience of one particular group of women.
		So gender coherence itself can be seen as a regulatory fiction designed to keep women (and men) in their place: women must always be feminine (and men must always be masculine).
		In fact, some feminists point out that if gender is a socially and historically constructed category, then there are more than two possible genders and gender does not necessarily follow from sex; for example, there are more possibilities than femininity and masculinity and not all males are masculine nor are all females feminine.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Gend/GendWess.htm (4096 words)

	www.theory.org.uk Resources: Madonna and queer theory
		'Gender is always a doing, though not a doing by a subject who might be said to preexist the deed There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results' (ibid:33).
		Further, this notion of gender parody does not assume it imitates an original, rather the parody is of the very notion of the natural and the original: 'gay is to straight not as copy is to original, but, rather, as copy is to copy' (ibid:175, 41).
		Indeed, it is Madonna's mainstream position in popular culture that facilitates her potential to cause gender trouble (in a 1994 interview, Butler agreed that symbolic subversive politics is tied to political practice through the role of the mass media (Osborne & Segal 1994)).
	www.theory.org.uk /madonna.htm (3737 words)

	Harvard Divinity Bulletin - Amy Hollywood - Out of the Norm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Indeed, part of the pleasure, the giddiness of the performance is in the recognition of a radical contingency in the relation between sex and gender in the face of cultural configurations of causal unities that are regularly assumed to be natural and necessary.
		Precisely because genders are not natural, gender is "a construction that regularly conceals its genesis." The power of gender lies precisely in the effacement of its own constitution through the practices by which we enact it.
		For Butler, "the possibilities of gender transformation are to be found precisely in the arbitrary relation between such acts, in the possibility of a failure to repeat, a de-formity, or a parodic repetition that exposes the phantasmatic effect of abiding identity as a politically tenuous construction."
	www.hds.harvard.edu /news/bulletin_mag/articles/34-1_hollywood.html (1731 words)

	Learning Environments Chapter Eight
		Social conventions both define and legitimate what is considered "normal" and "natural" for one's sex or gender, with an emphasis on the differences between the sexes rather than on their common characteristics.
		Because gender characteristics are ascribed in polarized ways--to be masculine is not to be feminine--identification with one set of characteristics precludes identification with the other.
		As noted later, this "gendering" of the work world into separate women's and men's spheres is paralleled, and supported, by a gendering of the learning environment.
	www-distance.syr.edu /ndacelech8.html (4482 words)

	Amazon.com: Undoing Gender: Books: Judith Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
		Gender scholars should recognize that we cannot seriously and comprehensively discuss sexuality and gender if the dynamics around genital reducing surgery (circumcision) performed "routinely" on infants is not included in the scope of this discussion.
		While "Undoing Gender" is one of Judith Butler's most accessible texts (in that one does not need to have a philosophical companion and an OED on hand to read it), I did find many of the essays to not be as well developed as others she has written.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415969239?v=glance (1666 words)

	The Disparate Classification of Gender and Sexual Orientation in American Psychiatry
		Thus, commonly reported midlife gender dysphoria among male cross dressers is characterized as a "collapse" from ego-dystonic transvestism to deeper pathology in the face of stress (Wise 1980).
		In the case of gender non-conforming children and adolescents, the GID criteria are significantly broader in scope in the DSM-IV (APA, 1994, p.
		The desire to uncouple the clinical diagnosis of gender dysphoria from criteria for approving patients for SRS was one factor in the subcommittee's recommendation that these categories be merged under the single heading of Gender Identity Disorder.
	www.priory.com /psych/disparat.htm (5076 words)

	Left in SF: Gender Trouble
		--Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990).
		Written by Judith Butler, a renowned postmodern queer theorist, Gender Trouble deconstructed and challenged essentialist notions of gender.
		And she would encourage radical gender performances to undermine the notion that there is stability in gender...
	www.leftinsf.com /oldblog/2005/04/gender-trouble.html (648 words)

	Feminism and Women's Studies: Gender Issues in Computer Networking
		The breakdown of gender usage on various networks is difficult to gauge, but it is safe to say that women are not very well represented on most networks.
		As was mentioned before, the breakdown of gender usage on networks is difficult to gauge, and depends on the network.
		Anita Borg, the founder and moderator of Systers, has often been asked to justify the exclusion of men from her list, particularly given that the list is not limited solely to discussions of women's issues, but deals in professional and technical concerns.
	feminism.eserver.org /gender-issues.txt (5205 words)

	www.theory.org.uk Resources: Judith Butler
		Butler's approach -- inspired in part by Foucault -- is basically to smash the supposed links between these, so that gender and desire are flexible, free-floating and not 'caused' by other stable factors.
		This text summarising Gender Trouble is copyright © David Gauntlett, 1998.
		Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge, 1990).
	www.theory.org.uk /ctr-butl.htm (1031 words)

	Transcending Gender: Trouble With Marriage Recognition in the U.K.
		Transcending Gender: Trouble With Marriage Recognition in the U.K. BlogThis!
		Trouble With Marriage Recognition in the U.K. Elizabeth Bellinger has been happily married for 22 years.
		She pursued her case to the highest court in the U.K., the House Lords, in April, 2003, to no avail because Parliament has declared people's birth sex to be their sex for life, regardless of actions any people may take to alter their sexual identity.
	www.jenburke.com /2004/12/trouble-with-marriage-recognition-in.html (320 words)

	Judith Butler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most widely read and misread move in Gender Trouble is the redeployment of Derrida's reading of J.
		It extends beyond the doing of gender and can be understood as a full-fledged theory of subjectivity.
		To disrupt readings of the gender performative that simplistically view gender enactment as a daily voluntaristic "choice," Butler strengthens the performative theory of gender with a consideration of the status of repetition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Judith_Butler (1421 words)

	Gender Trouble: Ordering information
		Copies of GENDER TROUBLE are available for training purposes within your department (hospitals, universities and libraries).
		GENDER TROUBLE is a powerful 24 minute documentary in which four Intersex women openly tell the stories of their medical treatment and discuss disclosure, terminology, surgery and society’s approach to gender.
		We believe that GENDER TROUBLE will be an invaluable tool in communicating to clinicians, students and parents the real consequences of the medical treatment of intersex patients.
	www.wonder-dog.co.uk /gender3.html (438 words)

	Powell's Books - Gender Trouble Feminism 10TH Edition by Judith Butler
		Judith Butler's new preface situates Gender Trouble within the past decade of work on gender, and counters some common misconceptions about the book and its aims.
		Butler examines the 'trouble' with unproblematized appeals to sex/gender identities.
		She challenges a variety of psychological assumptions about what it means to be a gender and gives re-readings of Lacan, Freud, and Kristeva.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0415924995-0 (230 words)

	Gender Trouble: Director's statement
		"Gender Trouble’ was made to represent the views of these UK groups and with their full support and co-operation.
		The power of personal narrative and the expression of grief is proving to be a very effective way of communicating to surgeons and clinicians the difficult issues relating to genital surgery and the very real repercussions such surgery has on the adult lives of the intersexed.
		‘Gender Trouble’ is now being shown at medical conferences as part of a wider campaign to get surgical protocol in relation to cosmetic genital surgery on intersex babies overturned.
	www.wonder-dog.co.uk /gender2.html (1420 words)

	[i:rrhoblog] : linkdump : Gender Trouble
		Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005) · 11:17 Uhr · Gender Trouble · #
		Be it his "sensitivity" on the war on terror or "girlie-man" preoccupation with the lack of jobs or health care, Kerry has been forced to defend himself from a barrage of rhetoric carefully designed to cast not just him but the entire Democratic plank as the epitome of feminine weakness.
		A lesbian serial killer and her vampiric, crafty lesbian lover are the main characters of Monster, an acclaimed recent film that also seems, incongruously, to have won the blessing of the gay and lesbian media and activists.
	www.rochuswolff.de /weblog/linkdump/gender_trouble (3815 words)

	Amazon.ca: Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Critics took Butler to task for arguing that gender is something that is simply an act of performative volition - one can "be" whatever one wants to be - irrespective of the materiality of the body.
		There is often no reason for Butler's writing to be as incomprehensible as it is, especially given the giant claims she's making about the nature of gender (other than to "perform" her writing's own indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis and Althusserian critique).
		Moreover, her work has been rightly faulted (partiucularly by Martha Nussbaum) by holding out an ideal of "subversion" that is something (in the terms of how she frames it) that ultimately DOES have very little to do with the ways sexual inequality is experienced outside of a somewhat narrow bourgeois American academic purview.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415903661 (1014 words)

	IFGE Books - Gender Trouble - Butler
		"Gender Trouble is a lucid critique of the notion of fixed gender 'identities' said to be rooted in nature, bodies, or a necessary heterosexuality.
		Gender Trouble is a provocative, engaging, and subversive book." - Joan W. Scott / Institute for Advanced Study
		She uses the dimension of gendered homosexuaity as a critical instrument to examine the negotiation of woman's body.
	www.ifge.org /books/gender_trouble.htm (533 words)

	Gender Trouble -- In These Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the past decade alone, the media has propagated wave after wave of gender panic, reporting on riot grrls and Fight Club boys, lesbian and then geek chic, soccer hooligans and moms, trenchcoated school bullies, and female high-school hazers.
		Each of these media moments picks a point from the continuum of expected behavior for members of each gender and subjects those people who deviate too far from the mean to unflattering scrutiny.
		“Gender itself remains invisible as a progressive issue,” Wilchins writes.
	www.inthesetimes.com /site/main/article/608 (777 words)

	Gender Trouble Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Non-Fiction : Gender Trouble Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
		In a new introduction to the 10th-anniversary edition of Gender Trouble--among the two or three most influential books (and by far the most popular) in the field of gender studies--Judith Butler explains the complicated critical response to her groundbreaking arguments and the ways her ideas have evolved as a result.
		Nevertheless, she has resisted the urge to revise what has become a feminist classic (as well as an elegant defense of drag, given Butler's emphasis on the performative nature of gender).
	www.hallnonfiction.com /store/books_0415924995_Gender-Trouble-Tenth-Anniversary-Edition.html (127 words)

	Feminism and Women's Studies: Gender Issues in Online Communications
		By doing so, BAWIT seeks to advance the state of women who use telecom, to provide a higher profile for women in the industry, and to encourage women and girls in their exploration of computers in general, and in particular, telecom.
		Despite the fact that computer networking systems obscure physical characteristics, many women find that gender follows them into the on-line community, and sets a tone for their public and private interactions there--to such an extent that some women purposefully choose gender neutral identities, or refrain from expressing their opinions.
		[This is a draft of a paper prepared for the Gender, Technology and Ethics conference to be held in Lulea, Sweden, June 1-2, 1992].
	feminism.eserver.org /gender-issues-online.txt (3663 words)

	GENDER Trouble (Tenth Anniversary Edition) \| Buy cheap Book with low price
		after reading gender trouble, you may like the text, you may dislike it, but there is NO way that you won't learn a great deal and be introduced to a variety of original and provocative thoughts on feminism and gender studies.
		there is a reason why butler's gender trouble is widely considered one the revolutionary texts on feminist theory...so i encourage you to endure the "difficult" writing and broaden your horizons.
		This doesn't mean that we can choose our gender, but it does present an interesting theorization of the way in which gender norms are established, regulated, and transgressed in contemporary society.
	book.surpriced.com /0415924995.html (709 words)

	Calls for Presentations, Papers, Publications: MLA: Papa, Pappy, and Gender Trouble: Ernest Hemingway, William ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		MLA: Papa, Pappy, and Gender Trouble: Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Gender
		This panel, sponsored by the Hemingway Society, invites papers that examine the role of gender in the lives, personae, and works of Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.
		In the main, ideas of gender underwent drastic changes during the Modernist era, and gender was an important component of Faulkner and Hemingway’s respective lives, literary experiments, and attitudes toward each other.
	www.unm.edu /~loboblog/mort/archives/006129.html (241 words)

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