Comments on: Happy Birthday, Judith Butler! http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/02/24/happy-birthday-judith-butler-3/ Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:55:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bill R http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/02/24/happy-birthday-judith-butler-3/comment-page-1/#comment-587378 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 01:04:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=59073#comment-587378 OK, I give up. What is the symbolism of the zipper and what does liking 80s dance music (shoot me!) have to do with it? More importantly, what’ Butler’s basic premise, uncoded from the intro?

]]> By: Anna http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/02/24/happy-birthday-judith-butler-3/comment-page-1/#comment-587376 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:10:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=59073#comment-587376 Mostly meaningless differentiation. Butler herself has been criticized for failing to clarify and maintain a difference between the two in her work, except as a purely intellectual semantic exercise.

]]> By: Yelly http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/02/24/happy-birthday-judith-butler-3/comment-page-1/#comment-587375 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:04:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=59073#comment-587375 As I understand it Butler argued that gender is performative, not that it is performed.

]]> By: Guest http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/02/24/happy-birthday-judith-butler-3/comment-page-1/#comment-587374 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 18:05:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=59073#comment-587374 I suppose my problem is that I’m 71 years old.

]]> By: Andrew http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/02/24/happy-birthday-judith-butler-3/comment-page-1/#comment-587373 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:53:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=59073#comment-587373 For better or worse. blogging allows academics to reach a wider audience and communicate in a more informal, personal way than conventional journals do.

If you’re interested in sociology but find the vulgarity of the prose (and occasional flights of fallacy) off-putting, here are some less colloquial resources to peruse: http://www.asanet.org/journals/journals_and_publications.cfm

]]> By: Larry Charles Wilson http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/02/24/happy-birthday-judith-butler-3/comment-page-1/#comment-587372 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:20:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=59073#comment-587372 Why do supposedly educated individuals feel it necessary to use vulgarisms?

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