Performing Gender Identities
Performing Gender Identities

(Hybrid Theories of Deducing Gender Identities Through Centered and De-centered ‘Images’)

Author(s): Miško Šuvaković
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Gender history
Published by: Centar za ženske studije & Centar za studije roda i politike, Fakultet političkih nauka, Beograd
Summary/Abstract: In this text I shall confront two forms of hybridity: hybridity of a theory and hybridity of a subject, with a caveat, that these are different forms of hybridity. In the case of theory, it is about the epistemological hybridity of a piece of work, referring to different disciplinary approaches. I am operating with the interpretative platforms of confrontation of theories of art, studies of culture/gender and philosophical constructs relocated from their home contexts into non-home productions of ‘philosophical organs’ deprived of a body. In the case of a subject, it is about the performability within the cultural and, narrower still, artistic material practices of posing, representing and identifying gender identity in an image and with the help of an image. It is not about the gender identity of a ‘human being’ (from an organism to a being), but it is about pointing to representations of gender identities in artistic and cultural advocating media.

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