Reading the Theoretical Work of Judith Butler

解讀茱蒂巴勒的性／性別理論

10.6255/JWGS.1997.8.239

林宇玲(Yu-Ling Lin)

性別表演 ； 性別扮演力 ； 扮裝 ； 嘲諷政治 ； 再表意＜再賦予新意＞ ； performance of gender ； performativity of gender ； drag ； parodicpolitics ； resignify

婦女與兩性學刊

8期（1997 / 04 / 01）

239 - 263

英文

本文試圖解釋巴勒的性別扮演模式。這模式已被廣泛地應用在女性與性别研究上，因為它提供了一套反叛策略去對抗陽物中心主義。本文為了解釋巴勒如何利用拉崗與傅柯的理論去發展她的扮演模式，特別檢視她的四個主要概念，分別是性與性別無分別論、性差異、性別扮演力、扮裝與嘲弄。 本文發現巴勒的模式能幫助女性主義者發展她們的微觀政治，因為她已成功地合併傅柯的權力觀與拉崗的想像概念，以致於她能解釋身體是如何透過認同的過程被形塑成物，並進而發展她的解構策略去對抗此種異力。

This paper tries to explain Butler's performative model of gender. This model has been widely applied in women and gender studies, because it offers a strategy of subversion against phallogocentrism. In order to elaborate how Butler develops her model based on theories of Lacan and Foucault, this paper will examine Butler's four concepts: no distinction between sex/gender; sexual difference; performativity of gender; and drag and parody. This paper finds that Butler's model is useful to develop micro-politics for feminists, because she sucessfully incorporates Focaultian notion of power and Lacanian notion of the imaginary into her model, thus being able to explain how the bodies come to matter through identificatory process and develop her strategy of deconstruction.

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