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| From Gender Performativity to Cultural Critique: Towards an Understanding of Judith Butler's Political-Ethical Theory |
| WANG Nan |
| School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China |
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Abstract In 1990s, Judith Bulter's intervened questioning on the presumption of the essentialist gender dichotomy has changed our oppositional beliefs on gender formation, universal ethics and speech-act of daily life. This article reviews and discusses Butler’s theoretical debates and critical practice in the last two decades, especially after she proposed the theory of “Gender Performativity”. It argues that Butler’s contribution, interrogating feminism, reforming the productive meaning of agency and the construction of cultural survival for Jewish Americans, makes a significant breakthrough in dealing with contemporary gender impasse. It would be fair to say that Butler’s ongoing critical endeavor has unveiled a possible correlation that intertwines between gender and ethics. Instead of providing an immediate solution to the problematic of gender trouble, Butler prefers to stay in the "becoming" state of gender “in-betweeness”. Her political and ethical probe has lightened up the blind spot of western humanistic tradition: the vulnerability of human beings. The exclusion of “non-human” beings and the neglecting of multi-forms of life still remain unsolvable ethical problem in regards to recognizing their claims of “living a livable life”.
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