When the woman in the audience at my talk said
When the woman in the audience at my talk said "I survived lesbian feminism and still desire women", I thought that was a really great line, because one of the problems has been the normative requirement that has emerged within some lesbian-feminist communities to come up with a radically specific lesbian sexuality. Judith Butler
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The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities. - Judith Butler Quotes

The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.

Judith Butler

 American Philosopher
I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist. - Judith Butler Quotes

I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

Judith Butler

 American Philosopher
I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic. - Judith Butler Quotes

I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

Judith Butler

 American Philosopher
A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people only if one believes that Israel alone keeps the Jewish people alive or that all Jews invest their sense of perpetuity in the state of Israel in its current or traditional forms. - Judith Butler Quotes

A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people only if one believes that Israel alone keeps the Jewish people alive or that all Jews invest their sense of perpetuity in the state of Israel in its current or traditional forms.

Judith Butler

 
When the woman in the audience at my talk said

When the woman in the audience at my talk said ""I survived lesbian feminism and still desire women"", I thought that was a really great line, because one of the problems has been the normative requirement that has emerged within some lesbian-feminist communities to come up with a radically specific lesbian sexuality.

Judith Butler

 
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original. - Judith Butler Quotes

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

Judith Butler

 American Philosopher Imitation
It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims. - Judith Butler Quotes

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.

Judith Butler

 American Philosopher
Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies. - Judith Butler Quotes

Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.

Judith Butler

 American Philosopher
Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media. - Judith Butler Quotes

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

Judith Butler

 American Philosopher Law
Perhaps a new sort of feminist politics is now desirable to contest the very reifications of gender and identity, one that will take the variable construction of identity as both a methodological and normative prerequisite, if not a political goal. - Judith Butler Quotes

Perhaps a new sort of feminist politics is now desirable to contest the very reifications of gender and identity, one that will take the variable construction of identity as both a methodological and normative prerequisite, if not a political goal.

Judith Butler

 
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