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The Fate Of "The Female"

Posted on:2012-12-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2217330338463691Subject:Foreign philosophy
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Half of human are consist of women. But since the division of labor appeared in our civilization, women's rights, value, requirements and aspirations have been neglected and contempted intendionally. Along with the develepments of social politics, economy,culture and education, women gradually realize that men and women do not have equal rights in the society, even so far the knowledge have been written by men and served for them. Women should not only fight for the equality of men and women, but also need to change the understanding about the society and the world, thus appeared feminism.Liberal feminism is the first one in traditional feminism, which representing the awakening of female consciousness. Liberalist feminism claim that women should strive for the same rights, but to the contrast, radical feminist commend and propose the autonomy and particularity of the women, which think that women have positive and super value. The reason for the contrary opinion about "women between these two schools is they have to make a choice between the two ambivalent opinions and they all have to strict to it. As political subjects and a starting point in political activity, "female" cause several serious problems. Some women will make their own experience as universal experience; this opinion causes the internal divisions and fundamentally shakes the foundation of feminism. At the same time the assumption of universal experience also cause the suppression of diversity and internal oppress. And the final problem is the affirming of the women appears to enhance the patriarchy which they want to oppose and break.Butler consider that the primary reason for this dilemma is realism. Through the analysis of gender, she made up a bold idea that sex is also gender, which is also variable. Sex is not a biological or physical fact, but the product of discursive practices and social construction as gender. With the applying power to the body, along the repeated controls and the imitation behaviors, heterosexuality makes itself as natural and basic. The non-normal appearance such as gay makes us recognized that heterosexuality is a imaginary and a fiction.It is actually a result of constantly imitation of heterosexual standard rather than a starting point and causes. Through the veveal of the nature of heterosexuality, the non-normal sex and bodies will get rethinking,recognized and maybe acceptance, which will further brought unlimitedness and diversity of sex,gender and subject. Deconstruction of norm about sex and gender also bring about the diversity of d "female" which associated with gender. Like homoerotism has always been accompanied with heterosexual, abnormality is always accompanied by normality. Abnormality reveals the fiction of normality and plays the role of subversion of the norm as a result. If we want to break standard, the key is to be repeated and constantly practice the norm, thus abnormality as subversion will naturally appear in this process. The complement of norm do not means the delimitation of activity of human. In the front of norm, we have the ability to say "no", and because of the soul which beyond the cognitive and adhere to the self, we become subjects. The insisting of becoming a subject will finally produce the affirming and abolishing of norm as a result. The important promise is allowing and continuation of the repeating, thus the possibility of subversion will become real.This article brings forth a new idea. It regards Butler's performtivity theory as a representation and review of gender norms, rather than a deliberately subversion and a political strategy.This reveal will eliminate the seemingly basis and authenticity of heterosexuality,binary sex and gender and offer equal position to abnormality, it also bring in a chance to rethinking about gender,female and solve the problem of lamination, division and reperssion of feminism.Meanwhile,this article try to claim the deconstruction of gender promote the diversity of female and perpetually continuity rather than neglect "female" and "subjects". The last part of this article discusses what the polyandry female should do in the future.
Keywords/Search Tags:feminism, sex, gender, theory of performance, subversion
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