Judith Butler

History of Breath Practice The history of breathe practice is well known and documented and breath and breathing have been essential elements of Asian philosophies since ancient times. According to Tadashi Ogawa, a Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Kyoto University, “Ethics is essentially a way of life through breathing”. (Hackenberg, Skof, p 201). According to the Soto Zen monk and teacher Shunryu Suzuki, “What we call ’I’ is just a swinging door, which moves when we inhale and when we…

According to Arnold and Leavis, conservative theorists with elitist conceptions of culture, low (popular) culture is dull entertainment to be enjoyed by uneducated and uncritical “low-brow” hoards. For the past three decades pop music has been a part of a large cultural resistance to feminism, as there are certain songs that are in sync with feminist goals and objectives. As Jones suggests, “some talented artists, such as Beyoncé, break through this onslaught of problematic tunes by producing…

towards female body builders and male body builders. In this scenario, male body building is considered to be a freakishly fascinated sport while female body building is considered to be a horrifying event that only strange women would engage in. Judith Butler adds to the conversation by stating that gender typically becomes a performance that must be endlessly performed in order to exist. Therefore, it is not society alone that reinforces gender stereotypes of women, but it is also the members…

I first became familiar with the relationship between feminism and disability when I was assigned reading from the anthology Feminist Disability Studies. With essays from writers such as Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Alison Kafer, it is an incredibly powerful collection, demonstrating how the interests of feminist theory and disability studies overlap. And yet, despite the efforts of these scholars and disabled feminists in academia and in activist groups, disability does not seem to be on the…

1. Intersectionality Intersectionality is a framework that acknowledges the multiplicity of identities in marginalized people. It is an awareness of how multiple systems of power act simultaneously on marginalized people: a person’s identities (their race, class, sexuality, gender, age, ability, etc.) are not separate – they are intertwined. Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term in her 1989 essay “Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex,” and she expands on it in her 1993 essay “mapping…

Walt Disney Skyler Bisceglia Period 1 Mrs.Sciullo Skyler Bisceglia Sciullo Pd 1 22 November, 2016 Terri Payne Butler wrote that “Nearly three decades after his death, ‘Disney’ is no longer a name, but a conjuring word, summoning collective memories of poisoned apples, pumpkined carriages, and raucous blue genies.”(“Walt Disney,” Authors and Artists for Young Adults). Walt Disney inspired people with the symbols he used in his films to represent a bigger thing. Walt Disney’s Disney World…

the mainstream masses, something created by the masses for the masses. The first wave identifies the role of the individual, while the second wave looks at political representation and the third wave concentrates on de-claiming women’s body. As Judith Butler states in ‘Gender Trouble’ that the notion of sex, sexuality and gender should be challenged by the 'subversive confusion and proliferation' of categories. The binary oppositions of the male and female should be destroyed. This paper further…

From the very beginning, the world has been divided into two stereotypical groups namely the male and the female. This distinction is made on the basis of biological and social difference. Patriarchy, the dominance of male over the female, defines female identity where the female are considered to be logically, morally and culturally inferior to the male. In a patriarchal society, women are considered as “other”. They are treated as object of sexual pleasure, destined to give birth to child and…

Throughout the history of activism within the LGBT+ community, there has been a common goal to promote openness and acceptance. By employing a strategy modeled after the civil rights movement, which mainly focused on assimilation into the dominant institutions as a means of acceptance, activist groups have received their fair share of criticism. In 1997, Cathy J Cohen, a Black lesbian author and social activist, published the groundbreaking article “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The…

photographed, and publicly exhibited. There have been polarized reactions to Arbus' work as a number of people are seduced to play a part in her bliss of looking, particularly at people (“the others”) who are noticeable even in a crowd (Arbus, 1972; Butler, 2004), while there are several who criticize the pictures as distressing, unfair, and pessimistic, but are powerless to escape similar enticement in spite of themselves (Sontag,…