Gender Imago

Searching for New Feminist Methodologies

Bibliographic Data

ID2408176
AuthorsNiza Yanay, Nitza Berkovitch (0000-0001-8872-1782)
Year2006
Volume6
Issue2
Pages193-216
Publication date2006-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1532708605276914
OpenAlexW2144518746
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

Invoking Butler's notion of gender performativity, Kristeva's concept of foreignness, and Laplanche's reconceptualization of otherness, the authors examine the power of fantasy to change the women and men that we always already are. Using 'writing-in-response,' they discuss the meaning of gender performance in relation to their theoretical commitments. The article is structured around three different forms of dialogue: (a) two lectures that the authors presented, each one contesting accepted ideas of gender, self, and society; (b) seven e-mail correspondences that develop the ideas presented in the lectures and that dramatize the transition from speaking to writing-in-response; and (c) a discussion, developed both together and separately, that raises the possibility of exploring a new language of gendered subjectivity. The article challenges the concept of 'direct experience,' the separation between psychology and sociology, and destabilizes the space between gender fantasy and performance

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Fantasy · Imago · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Performativity · Power (physics · Psychoanalysis · Relation (database · Sociology · Subjectivity · Transition (genetics · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Management and Organizational Studies · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Gender Studies · Philosophy

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