http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/sarah_lindon_opendemocracy_net/neutering_politics Comments for "Neutering politics, " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/sarah_lindon_opendemocracy_net/neutering_politics I promised Cindy I would elaborate on Judith Butler’s lecture “On being beside oneself: on the limits of sexual autonomy”, and why I think it is relevant to her post about the cultural sphere. (The lecture is published in <a href="http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-280561-4" target="_blank" title="Sex Rights Bamford">this book</a>.)<br /> <br /> To recap: she was concerned with how gendered and sexualised people outside the mainstream challenge mainstream understandings of women, peace and security, and how film and web interventions break past conventional understandings of where politics occurs. She also raised the issue of “what women stand for”. (I think the idea of how a woman “looks presidential” <a href="/openblogs/blog/1325women/?permalink=Commander-in-Chief-is-the-US-ready-for-a-woman-president.html&amp;smm=y" target="_self" title="Commander in Chief">on TV</a> is interesting here, how a fictional TV show might impinge on real politics, in fact how “reality TV” affects lived realities…)&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/sarah_lindon_opendemocracy_net/neutering_politics" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/sarah_lindon_opendemocracy_net/neutering_politics">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/sarah_lindon_opendemocracy_net/neutering_politics#comment Women Making a Difference 5050 Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:28:59 +0100 sarah.lindon@opendemocracy.net 18207 at http://www.opendemocracy.net