Notes for 16 February 2016
LITCS 114
Teaching Associate: Patrick Mooney
Bldg. 494, room 160B
Winter 2016
- Butler's Gender Trouble
- Other Butler questions, if Cassandra doesn't get to them
- What does Butler
get us
? Is the opening of Gender Trouble a plausible analysis?
- Let's talk in more detail about Butler's critique of feminist politics (esp. pp. 4–6 in the text).
What's wrong with
feminism
, for Butler? Does this imply that feminism is not a worthwhile project?
- For Butler, what is
a woman
? What does it mean, for her, to be
a woman?
- How does Butler's analysis connect with Foucault's analysis of language and power?
- What does Butler take
identity
to be?
- How does Butler's analysis connect to other critiques of power that we have looked at this quarter?
- Starting off on Le Guin ...
- Is this a
feminist
text? Why/not?
- What gets represented in the plot? What does not? What are the implications of these (non-)representations?
- What would it mean for this to be a feminist text? What would be required for this to be plausible?
- Does this constitute a critique of existing power relationships? If so, how so? If not, what is missing?
- Today's whiteboard snapshots