{"id":1570,"date":"2009-01-22T13:31:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T18:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2009-04-17T13:15:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T18:15:06","slug":"gender-foucault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/01\/22\/gender-foucault\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Foucault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Foucault&#8217;s view, the critic thus has a double task: to show how knowledge and power work to consitute a more or less systematic way of ordering the world with its own &#8220;conditions of acceptability of a system,&#8221; and &#8220;to follow the breaking points which indicate its emergence.&#8221;  So it will not be enough to isolate and identify the peculiar nexus of power and knowledge that gives rise to the field of intelligible things. Rather, it is necessary to track the way in which that field meets its breaking point, the moments of its discontinuities, and the sites where it fails to constitute the intelligibility it promises.  <span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\"> What this means is that one looks for the conditions by which the object field is constituted as well as the limits of those conditions, the moment where they point up their contingency and their transformability<\/span> (215-16).<br \/>\n[&#8230;] What this means for gender then is that it is important not only to understand how the terms of gender are instituted, naturalized, and established as presuppositional but to trace the moments where the binary system of gender is disputed and challenged, where the coherence of the categories are put into question, and where the very social life of gender turns out to be malleable and transformable.<br \/>\n216<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Foucault&#8217;s view, the critic thus has a double task: to show how knowledge and power work to consitute a more or less systematic way of ordering the world with its own &#8220;conditions of acceptability of a system,&#8221; and &#8220;to follow the breaking points which indicate its emergence.&#8221; So it will not be enough to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/01\/22\/gender-foucault\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gender Foucault&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,8,32,86,55,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler","category-discourse","category-foucault","category-gender","category-normative","category-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}