Reading #1 Analaysis - Assignment Example

[Teacher’s Reading Analysis The article assesses the parameters encompassing the body and what roles the skin has to play in the \determination of gender or “sex”. Sex as illustrated by Foucault was said to be normative from the start and once all its compositions and influences are placed into perspective, sex is a component of a regulatory practice. Hence the conclusion was derived that sex can be considered an ideal construct which in a forceful manner materialized through time. The article also assessed the composition of the body as a whole, its contours with body possessing the ability to fully materialize.

In the article, materiality was perceived to be effects power possesses along with its productive purpose. Therefore, under these assumptions, gender is impossible to understand neither as a body nor a particular sex. The article also indicated the “abject designates here precisely those ‘unbelievable qualities and ‘uninhabitable’ zones of social life which are nevertheless densely populated by those who do not enjoy the status of the subject but whose living under the sign of ‘unlivable” which is necessary and required to circumscribe a political leaders”.

The final part of the paper ends with a series of questions which include “How an individual can separate him or herself from social blindness and perceive the body as a variation of materialization which is controlled by a series of regulating norms? After this separation, there is a need to assess the functioning of heterosexual hegemony during the formation of what the article perceives tp be a viable body”. The article also raised questions on the subject, such as how bodily formations are capable of attaining such a paradigm of abjected bodies and fields of deformation which are at times not quantifiable as human.

This article is an aim to try and compare the paradox that involve gender, the body and the parameters associated with the interrelation and combination of these two aspects. It can be established that the authors of the article are of the material aspect of the body and how is far much relevant than its regulating factors monitoring the materialization of bodies. One aspect that is also mentioned to some detail in the paper is permativity which is done to evaluate the processes such as a power of discourse that is reiterative in nature and creates phenomena which it is responsible for constraining and regulation.

I agree with the views of the author in the sense that “sex” is not the constraint upon which gender is artificially implemented but rather represents norm that has been guided and established by culture and different societal views. In addition, one can not completely negate the relevance and societal role played by “sex” as it is influential in the creation of an individual as this process requires one to identify with normative phantasm of “sex”. The article was well written and the points were adherent to the initial hypothesis on the body.

However, more clarity in the wording and structuring of the paper would be helpful to the readers. Works CitedButler, Judith. "Bodies that matter." Feminist theory and the body: A reader(1999): 235-245.