LÉVI-STRAUSS’UN YAPISALCILIĞINI ALTÜST ETMEK: CİNSİYET BELASI’NI “BÜKÜLMÜŞ BRİCOLAGE” OLARAK OKUMAK

Öz

Bu makale, Judith Butler’ın Cinsiyet Belası: Feminizm ve Kimliğin Altüst Edilmesi (1999) adlı kitabında etkili yapısal antropolog Claude Lévi-Strauss’u sunuşunu eleştirel bir şekilde analiz eder. Bu kitapta Butler feministleri, ataerkil düzen eleştirilerinde Lévi-Strauss’un ikili karşıtlıklarını ve cinsiyet/toplumsal cinsiyet ikiliğini kullandıkları için eleştirir. Butler’ın analizi, toplumsal cinsiyetin nasıl işlediğini anlamak için verimli bir mercek sağlar. Fakat bu analiz, bu makalede gösterildiği gibi, Lévi-Strauss’un bu ikilikleri ele alışının yanlış bir ifadesine dayanmaktadır. Bu makale, Lévi-Strauss’un “bricolage” terimini kullanarak, Butler’ın bu yanlış yorumlayışını Lévi-Strauss’un yapısalcılığındaki bazı varsayımları sarsan bükülmüş bir bricolage formu olarak okur. Bu makale, Lévi-Strauss’un yapısal teorisinin sadece feminist teoriyi değil onun eleştirisini de etkilediğine dair bir örnek sunmaktadır. Bu makale, bunun yanı sıra, etkili toplumsal cinsiyet kuramcısı Judith Butler’ın diğer akademisyenleri yanlış yorumlayışını anlamak için alternatif bir yol sağlamayı amaçlamaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Claude Lévi-Strauss
• Judith Butler
• Cinsiyet Belası
• bükülmüş bricolage
• yapısalcılık
• altüst etme

SUBVERTING LÉVI-STRAUSS’S STRUCTURALISM: READING GENDER TROUBLE AS “TWISTED BRICOLAGE”

Abstract

This article critically analyzes Judith Butler’s presentation of Claude Lévi-Strauss in her book Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1999). In this book, Butler criticizes feminists for employing Lévi-Strauss’s binary oppositions and their use of the sex/gender binary in their critique of patriarchy. Butler’s analysis provides a fruitful lens to understand how gender operates. However, as the article shows, this analysis relies on a misrepresentation of Lévi-Strauss’s take on these dualities. Employing Lévi-Strauss’s term “bricolage,” the article reads Butler’s misinterpretation as a twisted form of bricolage, which destabilizes certain assumptions in Lévi-Strauss’s structuralism. The article presents an example of how Lévi-Strauss’s structural theory has influenced not only feminist theory but also its critique. The article also aims at providing an alternative way to understand influential gender theorist Judith Butler’s misinterpretation of other scholars.

Keywords

• Claude Lévi-Strauss
• Judith Butler
• Gender Trouble
• twisted bricolage
• structuralism
• subversion

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