Performativität oder "Doing Gender"? Subjektkonstitution bei West/Zimmerman und Butler

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Download or read book Performativität oder "Doing Gender"? Subjektkonstitution bei West/Zimmerman und Butler written by Anonym and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Beziehungen und Familie, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Aufgrund von geschlechtsspezifischen Ungleichheiten und willkürlichen Charakter- und Eigenschaftszuschreibungen wurde die Kategorie „Geschlecht“ durch feministische Debatten zweigeteilt. So entstand die sex/gender-Trennung. Die hier entstandene analytische Trennung von sex und gender legte zwar die soziale Konstruktion von Geschlecht offen, entkoppelte aber die Verbindung zwischen Biologie und Sozialisation. Die Frauenforschung kritisierte den traditionellen Geschlechterdualismus und die beliebigen kategorialen Zuschreibungen geschlechtsspezifischer Eigenschaften, verblieb aber an einer binären Differenzierung der biologischen Zweigeschlechtlichkeit von Frauen und Männern haften. Die alltägliche Selbstverständlichkeit der Zweigeschlechtlichkeit im Alltag wurde auf diese Weise in der Wissenschaft stillschweigend übernommen und reproduziert. West/Zimmermann und Butler kritisieren mit ihren konstruktionstheoretisch ausgerichteten Arbeiten die Weiterführung der universellen biologischen Zweigeschlechtlichkeit. Ausgehend von der Problematik der Naturalisierung von Geschlecht entwickeln sie konstruktivistische Theorien, die die Herstellungsprozesse der Geschlechterdifferenz selbst in Frage stellen. So stellen sie nicht nur die binäre Differenz in Frage, sondern postulieren auch, dass das biologische Geschlecht (sex) ebenfalls eine soziale Konstruktion sei. Dabei gehen sie jeweils von zwei unterschiedlichen Identitätsbegriffen aus, die im Mittelpunkt dieser Arbeit stehen sollen. Ein besonderer Fokus wird dabei auf dem Verhältnis zwischen der Konstruktion von (Geschlechts-)Identität und mögliche Veränderungsvorschläge von geschlechtsspezifischen Ungleichheiten liegen. Zunächst wird im Überblick das Konzept „doing gender“ dargelegt. Im darauffolgenden Unterkapitel wird speziell auf das Subjektverständnis von West/Zimmerman innerhalb der „doing gender“-Theorie eingegangen. Anschließend wird das Konzept der Performativität von Butler und ihre Subjektkritik vorgestellt. Abschließend werden die unterschiedlichen Subjektkonstitutionen miteinander verglichen und vor dem Hintergrund geschlechtsspezifischer Ungleichheiten und deren mögliche Lösung reflektiert.

Subjektkonstitution bei West/Zimmerman und Butler. Ein theoretischer Vergleich

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Download or read book Subjektkonstitution bei West/Zimmerman und Butler. Ein theoretischer Vergleich written by and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Geschlechterstudien / Gender Studies, Note: 1,0, Technische Universität Chemnitz (Institut für Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Geschlechtersoziologie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht den theoretischen Ansatz des "Doing Gender" nach West/Zimmerman und den Ansatz der diskursiven Performativität nach Judith Butler auf die Subjektkonstitution im Zusammenhang mit dem Geschlecht. Es stellt sich die Frage, wie West/Zimmerman das Subjekt verglichen mit Butler verstehen. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen den Ansätzen aufzuzeigen. Dafür wird ein auf Literaturarbeit basierender Vergleich vorgenommen, der nicht nur die Theorien an sich, sondern auch deren theoretischen Hintergrund, also die Ethnomethodologie nach Harold Garfinkel und den Diskursbegriff Michel Foucaults, an relevanten Stellen einbezieht.

Von „Doing“ zu „Undoing Gender“. Konzeptentstehung, Kritik und Weiterentwicklung

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Book Synopsis Von „Doing“ zu „Undoing Gender“. Konzeptentstehung, Kritik und Weiterentwicklung by : Dorothee Baum

Download or read book Von „Doing“ zu „Undoing Gender“. Konzeptentstehung, Kritik und Weiterentwicklung written by Dorothee Baum and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften allgemein, Note: 1, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit der Entstehung des Konzeptes „doing gender“, seiner Kritik dran und seiner Weiterentwicklung. An erster Stelle wird das auf Candace West und Don H. Zimmerman und mit ihnen auf die Transsexuellenstudien von Suzanne Kessler und Wendy McKenna und insb. jene von Harold Garfinkel zurückgehende Konzept des „doing gender“ erläutert. Fortgesetzt wird mit der Weiterentwicklung dieses Konzeptes bei West und Sarah Fenstermaker (doing difference) und bei Judith Lorber (Genderparadoxien). Im Anschluss wird die Kritik am Konzept des „doing gender“ zusammengefasst, drauf aufbauend werden drei prominente Gegenkonzepte erläutert: das „undoing gender“ bei Francine M. Deutsch und bei Stefan Hirschauer sowie das „degendering“ bei Judith Lorber. Abschließend wird dem ethnomethodologischen Konzept des „doing gender“ von West und Zimmerman der diskurstheoretischer Ansatz Judith Butlers („gender performance“) gegenübergestellt.

Wie wird Geschlecht hergestellt? Zur Performativität und diskursiven Konstruktion von Geschlecht bei Judith Butler

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Book Synopsis Wie wird Geschlecht hergestellt? Zur Performativität und diskursiven Konstruktion von Geschlecht bei Judith Butler by : Johanna Friedrich

Download or read book Wie wird Geschlecht hergestellt? Zur Performativität und diskursiven Konstruktion von Geschlecht bei Judith Butler written by Johanna Friedrich and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Geschlechterstudien / Gender Studies, Note: 1,7, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Seminararbeit soll der Frage nachgegangen werden, wie im Sinne Butlers Geschlecht hergestellt wird: Nämlich diskursiv. Das erste Kapitel ist zunächst in kurzen Zügen der Biografie Butlers gewidmet. Im zweiten Kapitel soll anhand der Erläuterung wichtiger Thesen, Begrifflichkeiten und Konzepte, die Butler anführt – insbesondere das Konzept der Performativität sowie das der intelligiblen Geschlechter – die Herstellungsweise von Geschlecht skizziert werden, während in einem abschließenden Schritt auf die Rezeption ihres Performativitätsbegriffs geschaut werden soll. "On ne naît pas femme, on le devient."/"Man ist nicht als Frau geboren, man wird es." Eben diese Einsicht Simone de Beauvoirs ist Ausgangspunkt für die teilweise radikale und deshalb wohl breit rezipierte Geschlechtertheorie Judith Butlers, insbesondere wenn es darum geht, die vermeintlich natürlich gegebenen Geschlechterverhältnisse zu entnaturalisieren und als Effekte von Machtverhältnissen und hegemonialen Diskursen herauszustellen. Denn vor allem in einem Punkt sind sich die beiden Philosophinnen einig: Geschlecht ist eine soziale Konstruktion. Was de Beauvoir in ihrem Werk Das andere Geschlecht (1992) angestoßen hat, führt Butler in ihren Schriften weiter indem sie konstatiert, dass es mehr als nur "männlich" und "weiblich" gibt – dass Geschlechtsidentität veränderbar ist.

Normed Children

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ISBN 13 : 3839430208
Total Pages : 371 pages
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Book Synopsis Normed Children by : Erik Schneider

Download or read book Normed Children written by Erik Schneider and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender- and sex-related norms have an impact on us from the first to the last day of our lives. What are the effects of such norms on the education of children and adolescents? Conveyed via parents/family, school, and peers, they seem to be an inseparable part of human relations. After its favorable reception in German-speaking countries from 2014 onwards, this title is now available in English. The texts show that the traditional assumption of a dualistic, bipolar normativity of sex and gender leads to children being taught gender-typical behavior. The contributions in this volume explore the reasons for these practices and open the debate on the divergence between the prevailing norms and the plurality of different life plans. In addition, the book helps to disengage the topic of sex and gender from a hitherto narrowly circumscribed context of sexual orientation. The contributions point the way towards a culture of respect and mutual acceptance and show new methodological as well as theoretical approaches, e.g. by introducing the figure of the continuum, so that, in future research projects, more than just the two sexes and genders of female and male might be considered as a new normality.

Spaces and Identities in Border Regions

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Book Synopsis Spaces and Identities in Border Regions by : Christian Wille

Download or read book Spaces and Identities in Border Regions written by Christian Wille and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial and identity research operates with differentiations and relations. These are particularly useful heuristic tools when examining border regions where social and geopolitical demarcations diverge. Applying this approach, the authors of this volume investigate spatial and identity constructions in cross-border contexts as they appear in everyday, institutional and media practices. The results are discussed with a keen eye for obliquely aligned spaces and identities and relinked to governmental issues of normalization and subjectivation. The studies base upon empirical surveys conducted in Germany, France, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Landscape and Power in Geographical Space as a Social-Aesthetic Construct

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ISBN 13 : 3319729020
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Book Synopsis Landscape and Power in Geographical Space as a Social-Aesthetic Construct by : Olaf Kühne

Download or read book Landscape and Power in Geographical Space as a Social-Aesthetic Construct written by Olaf Kühne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the power definiteness of landscape from a social constructivist perspective with a particular focus on the importance of aesthetic concepts of landscape in development. It seeks to answer the question of how societal notions of landscape emerge, how they are individually updated and how these ideas affect the use and design of physical space. It also analyzes how physical manifestations of societal activity impact on understandings of individual and societal landscapes and addresses the essential aspect of the social construction of landscape, cultural specificity, which in turn is discussed in the context of the expansion of a western landscape concept. The book offers an unprecedented, comprehensive and detailed examination of societal power relations in the context of landscape development. The numerous case studies from the physical manifestation of modern spatial planning in the United States, the power discourses concerning the design of model railway landscapes, and the medial production of stereotypical landscape notions shed light on the complex and multilayered interactions of collective and individual landscape references. It is a valuable resource for geographers, sociologists, landscape architects, landscape planners and philosophers.

The Narrative Subject

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ISBN 13 : 3030511898
Total Pages : 277 pages
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Soziologie - Sociology in the German-Speaking World

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ISBN 13 : 9783110623338
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Book Synopsis Soziologie - Sociology in the German-Speaking World by : Betina Hollstein

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Numeracy as Social Practice

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ISBN 13 : 1351979175
Total Pages : 432 pages
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Book Synopsis Numeracy as Social Practice by : Keiko Yasukawa

Download or read book Numeracy as Social Practice written by Keiko Yasukawa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning takes place both inside and outside of the classroom, embedded in local practices, traditions and interactions. But whereas the importance of social practice is increasingly recognised in literacy education, Numeracy as Social Practice: Global and Local Perspectives is the first book to fully explore these principles in the context of numeracy. The book brings together a wide range of accounts and studies from around the world to build a picture of the challenges and benefits of seeing numeracy as social practice ̶ that is, as mathematical activities embedded in the social, cultural, historical and political contexts in which these activities take place. Drawing on workplace, community and classroom contexts, Numeracy as Social Practice shows how everyday numeracy practices can be used in formal and non-formal maths teaching and how, in turn, classroom teaching can help to validate and strengthen local numeracy practices. At a time when an increasingly transnational approach is taken to education policy making, this book will appeal to development practitioners and researchers, and adult education, mathematics and numeracy teachers, researchers and policy makers around the world.

Queer Theory

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Gender and Entrepreneurship

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ISBN 13 : 1134262892
Total Pages : 240 pages
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The Other Within Us

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ISBN 13 : 0429975686
Total Pages : 430 pages
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Living With Contradictions

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ISBN 13 : 0429978774
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Gender, Symbolism and Organizational Cultures

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ISBN 13 : 9781446228609
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Book Synopsis Gender, Symbolism and Organizational Cultures by : Professor Silvia Gherardi

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New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care

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ISBN 13 : 1317087941
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Geneses, Genealogies, Genres, and Genius

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231139793
Total Pages : 118 pages
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Book Synopsis Geneses, Genealogies, Genres, and Genius by : Jacques Derrida

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