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# Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex 1st Edition

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    Interesting Questions, Poor Writing
  

*by R***D on Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2017*

In Bodies That Matter, Judith Butler builds upon her previous work, Gender Trouble, and argues, “The category of ‘sex’ is, from the start, normative; it is what Foucault called a ‘regulatory ideals.’” (pg. xi) Practice, specifically regulated practice, materializes these ideals. In a lengthy passage, Butler discusses the role of gender, writing,"If gender consists of the social meanings that sex assumes, then sex does not accrue social meanings as additive properties but, rather, is replaced by the social meanings it takes on; sex is relinquished in the course of that assumption, and gender emerges, not as a term in a continued relationship of opposition to sex, but as the term which absorbs and displaces 'sex,' the mark of its full substantiation into gender or what, from a materialists point of view, might constitute a full desubstantiation." (pg. xv)In order to achieve her analytical framework, Butler proposes “in place of these conceptions of constructions is a return to the notion of matter, not as a site or surface, but as a process of materialization that stabilizes over time to produce the effect of boundary, fixity, and surface we call matter.” (pg. xviii) Butler’s examination draws upon a wide array of sources, including Plato’s Timeus, Freud, Jacques Lacan, Willa Cather, Nella Larsen, and more. Butler’s purpose in writing was “to understand how what has been foreclosed or banished from the proper domain of ‘sex’…might at once be produced as a troubling return, not only as an imaginary contestation that effects a failure in the workings of the inevitable law, but as an enabling disruption, the occasion for a radical rearticulation of the symbolic horizon in which bodies come to matter at all.” (pg. xxx) These run-on sentences pervade Butler’s writing and often obscure her meaning and argument.

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    Great for gender scholars
  

*by J***T on Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2012*

Not as ground-breaking as Gender Trouble, but a worthy follow-up that should be required reading for gender scholars.  For the more casual reader, Butler's obtuse writing style may get in the way, but worth tackling if you're passionate about issues around gender and sexuality.

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    Great access to text books
  

*by W***R on Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2019*

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