FEMINIST THEORIES OF SUBJECTIVITY: JUDITH BUTLER AND JULIA KRISTEVA
FEMINIST THEORIES OF SUBJECTIVITY: JUDITH BUTLER AND JULIA KRISTEVA

Summary/Abstract: Feminist theorists like Judith Butler and Julia Kristeva, although following the work of poststructuralist thinkers Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan, who ‘decentered’ the traditional autonomous and rational subject, felt the need to re-think subjectivity in terms that would allow for agency and political action. Their anti-essentialism led them to construct gender identities as performative (Butler) and subjectivity as a process (Kristeva), concepts that, they argued, allowed for resistance and thus for agency.

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