Precarity and elemental difference: on Butler’s re-writing of Irigarayan difference

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dc.contributor.authorParker, Emily
dc.contributor.departmentTowson University. Department of Philosophy and Religious Studiesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-10T17:42:34Z
dc.date.available2021-06-10T17:42:34Z
dc.date.issued2017-06-01
dc.description.abstractIt is widely accepted that Judith Butler’s work represents a fundamental departure from that of Luce Irigaray. However, in a 2001 essay, Butler suggests that Irigaray’s work plays a formative role in her own, and that the problematization of the biological and cultural distinction that Irigaray’s notion of sexual difference accomplishes must be rethought and multiplied rather than simply rejected. In this essay, I place the notion of precarity in the work of Butler alongside that of sexual difference in Irigaray, to show how together they seek to address violence to certain bodies through an approach that is at once ecological and political. I show that Butler’s concept of precarity has deep, largely unappreciated, roots in the work of Irigaray. Butler explores precarity as bodily multiplicity in ways that pluralize Irigaray’s own ethics and politics of difference. Butler is, in other words, rewriting sexual difference as precarity.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0090591716658933en_US
dc.format.extent23 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2dnws-we6v
dc.identifier.citationParker, E. A. (2017). Precarity and Elemental Difference: On Butler’s Re-writing of Irigarayan Difference. Political Theory, 45(3), 319–341. https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591716658933en_US
dc.identifier.issn1552-7476
dc.identifier.uri10.1177/0090591716658933
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/21716
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSageen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolitical Theory;volume 45, number 3
dc.subjectGeology, Stratigraphic -- Anthropoceneen_US
dc.subjectDifferenceen_US
dc.subjectElemental differenceen_US
dc.subjectPrecarityen_US
dc.subjectIrigaray, Luceen_US
dc.subjectButler, Judith, 1956-en_US
dc.titlePrecarity and elemental difference: on Butler’s re-writing of Irigarayan differenceen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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