{"id":228,"date":"2019-03-06T16:43:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T16:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/?p=228"},"modified":"2019-03-06T16:43:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T16:43:55","slug":"hooks-and-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/uncategorized\/hooks-and-butler\/","title":{"rendered":"hooks and Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

bell hooks speaks to Butler’s Gender Theory <\/em>when she writes in her chapter “Teaching to Transgress” about the importance of “challeng[ing] and deconstruct[ing] the category ‘woman’ — the insistence on recognition that gender is not the sole factor determining constructions of female-ness” (63). This dismantling of the concept of the “woman” is a central topic of Butler’s work, in which she questions whether “being female constitute[s] a ‘natural fact’ or a cultural performance” (xxviii). Of course, through this questioning, Butler argues that female-ness is indeed simply a cultural performance, thus rendering feminism’s reliance on this rigid sexual categorization troubling. hooks stresses the importance of making theory accessible to everyone, and Butler’s deconstruction of gender serves this purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

bell hooks speaks to Butler’s Gender Theory when she writes in her chapter “Teaching to Transgress” about the importance of “challeng[ing] and deconstruct[ing] the category ‘woman’ — the insistence on … Continue readinghooks and Butler<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}