Image: Judith Butler at CCCB 2018.
We are looking at some issues in gender texts.
What is gender anyway? Does it emerge in gendering social discourse? Do ‘we’ emerge in gendering social discourse? What is gendering social discourse? We will take into account a range of Butler’s work from the earliest to the latest.
Judith Butler, ‘Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory’, Theatre Journal 40:4 (1988), 519–531.
Judith Butler, Who’s Afraid of Gender? (London: Penguin, 2024).
We'll structure our time as follows:
• For the first 15 minutes we'll catch up, then pray for one another's work. (There's no obligation to pray out loud.)
• For the next 60 minutes, we will discuss and reflect.
• We sometimes close with a time of lectio divina: https://www.anglicancommunion.org/media/253799/1-What-is-Lectio-Divina.pdf.
Please email contact@breadofhope.org.uk if you would like to join us via Zoom.