By Elisabeth Kirtsoglou
This impressive e-book exposes the unusual global of the parea--a lesbian mystery society established in a small-town bar outdoor Athens, whose contributors meet clandestinely.
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Moore, 1994: 79). There are two major problems identified in Bourdieu’s approach: first the lack of recognition of reflexivity (cf. Cowan, 1990), and second the fact that his scheme does not fully acknowledge internal multiplicity (cf. Moore, 1994; McNay, 2000: 72). With reference to the notion of reflexivity and as far as gender is concerned, it would be tremendously difficult to argue that the process of gendering is not compulsory (cf. Butler, 1993: 231). : 232), realised in ‘posture, in the gestures and movements of the body .
Butler argues that ‘there is no volitional subject . . who decides which gender it will be today . . gender is not a performance but a performative in the sense that it constitutes as an effect the very subject it appears to express’ (1991: 24). The second criticism focuses on the idea that the notion of ambiguity employed by performative approaches does not have the explanatory potential to exhaust the issues of sex and gender (Moore, 1999: 156; McNay, 2000). Ambiguity is indeed a central theme in performativity theory since gender performances often entail the deconstruction and reassociation of the semiotics of gender (cf.
The body The need to speak about the embodied dimension of subjectivity has been noted by numerous scholars. Social theorists now agree that the body, far from being a natural and ahistorical object is a culturally constituted ‘lived anatomy’ (Moore, 1994: 22), heavily involved in the fashioning of gender identity (Cowan, 1990; Grosz, 1994; Moore, 1994; Butler, 1990, 1993, 1997; Giddens, 1992; de Lauretis, 1994). The centrality of the body in much of contemporary theory is directly related to its former position in the dominant philosophical paradigm of the Enlightenment (McNay, 1992).