{"id":1905,"date":"2009-02-09T12:29:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T17:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2009-05-25T10:34:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T15:34:53","slug":"lloyd-sexgender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/02\/09\/lloyd-sexgender\/","title":{"rendered":"Lloyd sex\/gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moya Lloyd. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics<\/span> Polity 2008<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; both Beauvoir and Irigaray maintain that sexual difference is a natural aspect of human existence<\/p>\n<p>When feminists first began to theorize the sex\/genderrelation, the underlying assumption was that sex was both logically and chronologically prior to gender. Culturally determined gender norms, in other words, were conceptualized as secondary to natural sex.  Gender was thus what was inscribed onto sex is some way. It is the priority of the relation between sex and gender that Bulter problematizes (32).<\/p>\n<p>Crucially, sex as a regulative ideal thus also operates to exclude \u2014 or pathologize \u2014 those whose anatomy does not fit its normative parameters. It might be objected that Butler&#8217;s argument in this regard is unoriginal; after all, Foucault had already put into question the idea of naturalized &#8216;sex&#8217; when he demonstrated in <em>The History of Sexuality<\/em> that sex is the effect of a historically sedimented regime of sexuality and that the so-called &#8216;truth&#8217; of sex that every subject is supposed to exhibit is, in fact, manufactured bya constellation of regulatory and productive discourses of sexuality &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Butler is explicitly interested in gender and its relation to sex and sexuality. In this regard, Butler is not just content to argue that sex is a gendered effect and thus to re-theorize the sex\/gender relation in this way. Instead, following Wittig, amongst others, her purpose is to demonstrate how <strong>sex and gender are deployed within a particular framework, namely, that of heteronormativity<\/strong> (where men are opposed to women, masculinity to femininity, and heterosexuality to homosexuality).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moya Lloyd. Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics Polity 2008 &#8230; both Beauvoir and Irigaray maintain that sexual difference is a natural aspect of human existence When feminists first began to theorize the sex\/genderrelation, the underlying assumption was that sex was both logically and chronologically prior to gender. Culturally determined gender norms, in other words, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/02\/09\/lloyd-sexgender\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lloyd sex\/gender&#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":[78,86,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler","category-gender","category-sexual-difference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","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=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3370,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}