...portraying collective action as "simply" voluntaristic. On the other hand, in its focus on "rethinking [the] subversive possibilities for sexuality and identity within the terms of power itself," ' it fails to explore how the concatenations of local "strategies of subversive repetition" crystallize...

...impossibility and a politically impracticable dream, one that postpones the concrete and contemporary task of rethinking subversive possibilities for sexuality and identity within the terms of power itself.9 If we agree with Butler that "there is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender;...

...impossibility and a politically impracticable dream, one that postpones the concrete and contemporary task of rethinking subversive possibilities for sexuality and identity within the terms of power itself."51 An alternative position to either one of these is the current flurry of "academic" studies...

...a cultural impossibility and a politically impracticable dream, one that postpones the contemporary task of rethinking subversive possibilities for sexuality and identity within the terms of power itself (30). 5. She defines "normal life" as "una mujer que vive en su casa con una criada que se encarga...

...impossibility and a politically impracticable dream, one that postpones the concrete and contemporary task of rethinking subversive possibilities for sexuality and identity within the terms of power itself."86 As applied to the issue of pornography, this proposed "rethinking . . . within the terms...

...discovering 'a normative sexuality that is "before", "outside", or "beyond" power', but instead is spent on 'rethinking subversive possibilities for sexuality and identity within the terms of power itself'.14 Two difficulties with this resistance to essentialism present themselves for feminist ethics....

...impossibility and a politically impracticable dream, one that postpones the concrete and contemporary task of rethinking subversive possibilities for sexuality and identity within the terms of power itself."113 Butler is interested in modes of "doing" gender that evoke but do not constitute simple...

...impossibility and a politically impractical dream, one that postpones the concrete and contemporary task of rethinking subversive possibilities for sexuality and identity within the terms of power itself. (Butler, 1990: 30) In so far as human beings are able to create change and to exercise political agency...

...Butler does not advocate the rejection of identity altogether. She argues instead for the "contemporary task of rethinking subversive possibilities for sexuality and identity within the terms of power itself (Butler 1990, 30, emphasis added). Butler seems to accept the Foucauldian assertion that one can never...

...impossibility and a politically impracticable dream, one that postpones the concrete and contemporary task of rethinking subversive possibilities for sexuality and identity within the terms of power itself."57 Foucault and Butler do not mean to separate "sexuality" as a political identity from physical...