Angela Carter Magic Toyshop

1. Angela CarterMagic Toyshop Lecture 4 Sedgwick, Butler (Rose)

2. Equality Feminism • attempted to rethink sex and gender • Difference Feminism • we should prevent woman’s absorption into man • Women are not fighting for the right to be the same as men. Women are fighting for the right to be free as men.

3. Cixous • “Admitting the component of the other sex makes [men and women] at once much richer, plural, strong.”

4. Carter • It was as if he had put on the quality of maleness like a flamboyant cloak. • Finn displays an “insolent, off-hand, terrifying maleness, filling the room with its reek

5. 1990 • Eve Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet • Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble • Paris is Burning

6. Sedgwick • “[t]he dividing up of all sexual acts – indeed all persons — under the ‘opposite’ categories of ‘homo’ and ‘hetero’ is not a natural given but a historical process, still incomplete today and ultimately impossible but characterized by potent contradictions and explosive effects.”

7. Homosexual Panic • “a continuum of male homosocial bonds” (510) • “male homosexual panic becomes the normal condition of male heterosexual entitlement.” • CLIP

8. Butler • Performativity cannot be understood outside of a process of iterability, a regularized and constrained repetition of norms (608). • Performative acts are forms of authoritative speech” • CLIP • CLIP

9. Butler • The performative operates as the sanction that performs the herosexualisation of the social bond, perhaps it also comes into play precisely as the shaming taboo which ‘queers’ those who resist or oppose that social form as well as those who occupy it without hegemonic social sanction” (612)

10. Drag • challenging the "constitutive categories that seek to keep gender in its place by posturing as the foundational illusions of identity"