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amaterasu_no_ki gave me in an old discussion on my MA thesis:
"My theory is weak (I'm a psychologist and we kind of don't do it like y'all) but I will offer some of the names I've read in my study of gender theory:
Althusser's thoughts on ideological state apparatuses - how the state/society makes over individuals in it's image, and a person's perceptions of him or herself are influenced by the state and it's institutions. Butler was influenced by him, specifically his concept of interpellation, which is the idea that context always precedes the subject. I wish I had a specific reference (we read excerpts in a reader, and this was undergrad) but some of his books have online versions on marx2mao:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Althusser#Selected_bibliography
You're probably already reading/read Foucault's History of Sexuality.
Derrida also has some interesting insights, but since I suck at theory I'm gonna copy this summary from Wikipedia:
"[Derrida] in turn describes logocentrism as phallocratic, patriarchal and masculinist. Derrida contributed to "the understanding of certain deeply hidden philosophical presuppositions and prejudices in Western culture", arguing that the whole philosophical tradition rests on arbitrary dichotomous categories (such as sacred/profane, signifier/signified, mind/body), and that any text contains implicit hierarchies, 'by which an order is imposed on reality and by which a subtle repression is exercised, as these hierarchies exclude, subordinate, and hide the various potential meanings.'"
Yeah. The works in question are three books he published in 1967: Speech and Phenomena, Of Grammatology and Writing and Difference. A large portion of Writing and Difference and Of Grammatology is on Google Books:
Raewyn Connell, when she was writing as Robert Connell (she's transgendered) wrote a seminal book called Gender and Power that discusses a lot of these issues. Also has a preview on Google Books: here.
Gayle Rubin wrote a greeeeeeeeat piece called "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality". It was originally published in a book edited by Carole Vance (who is also somebody really good to look up concerning gender theory) but I think one of the best places to find it is in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader simply because that book has so many other great pieces. It's the first essay in the book and the whole damn thing is on Google Books. Other ones that may be interesting to you in that book are "Deviance, Politics, and the Media" by Stuart Hall, and "One is Not Born a Woman" by Monique Wittig. Both of those have a sample on Google Books.
I will also note that A Reader on Reading and The City of Words have previews on Google Books.
http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&q=manguel&btnG=Search+Books"
* Songelviraprose mentioned to me:
* Sam suggested looking for work with video game developers. Not a bad idea.
amaterasu_no_ki gave me in an old discussion on my MA thesis:"My theory is weak (I'm a psychologist and we kind of don't do it like y'all) but I will offer some of the names I've read in my study of gender theory:
Althusser's thoughts on ideological state apparatuses - how the state/society makes over individuals in it's image, and a person's perceptions of him or herself are influenced by the state and it's institutions. Butler was influenced by him, specifically his concept of interpellation, which is the idea that context always precedes the subject. I wish I had a specific reference (we read excerpts in a reader, and this was undergrad) but some of his books have online versions on marx2mao:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Althusser#Selected_bibliography
You're probably already reading/read Foucault's History of Sexuality.
Derrida also has some interesting insights, but since I suck at theory I'm gonna copy this summary from Wikipedia:
"[Derrida] in turn describes logocentrism as phallocratic, patriarchal and masculinist. Derrida contributed to "the understanding of certain deeply hidden philosophical presuppositions and prejudices in Western culture", arguing that the whole philosophical tradition rests on arbitrary dichotomous categories (such as sacred/profane, signifier/signified, mind/body), and that any text contains implicit hierarchies, 'by which an order is imposed on reality and by which a subtle repression is exercised, as these hierarchies exclude, subordinate, and hide the various potential meanings.'"
Yeah. The works in question are three books he published in 1967: Speech and Phenomena, Of Grammatology and Writing and Difference. A large portion of Writing and Difference and Of Grammatology is on Google Books:
Raewyn Connell, when she was writing as Robert Connell (she's transgendered) wrote a seminal book called Gender and Power that discusses a lot of these issues. Also has a preview on Google Books: here.
Gayle Rubin wrote a greeeeeeeeat piece called "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality". It was originally published in a book edited by Carole Vance (who is also somebody really good to look up concerning gender theory) but I think one of the best places to find it is in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader simply because that book has so many other great pieces. It's the first essay in the book and the whole damn thing is on Google Books. Other ones that may be interesting to you in that book are "Deviance, Politics, and the Media" by Stuart Hall, and "One is Not Born a Woman" by Monique Wittig. Both of those have a sample on Google Books.
I will also note that A Reader on Reading and The City of Words have previews on Google Books.
http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&q=manguel&btnG=Search+Books"
* Song
elviraprose mentioned to me: * Sam suggested looking for work with video game developers. Not a bad idea.
