Feminist Philosophy and the Controversial Judith Butler

Shams, Parisa

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“…The most ubiquitous route to independence for women has been in their response to men's dominance: seeking the company of other women, in segregated spaces, learning to walk solo and enskilling themselves to do so safely. The learning necessary to acquire appropriate dispositions and capital (autonomy, competence, gear as extension of the body) could be conceptualised as ‘the practices of repetition’ (happily required by the logic of the field) which women mountaineers have appropriated to be ‘culturally intelligible’ (Shams, 2020, p 19) within the field. The identity claims made by the women are thus part of a process of subject positioning.…”

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Rising to the Gender Challenge in Scotland: Women's Embodiment of the Disposition to be Mountaineers

Tulle

2022

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Mountains have long been dominated by men and hypermasculine practices. Women have worked hard to find a legitimate space in them. This paper is drawn from a qualitative study which explores the experiences of 10 women, based in Scotland, who have dedicated part of their lives to mountains. It adds to existing insights on women who have made inroads into mountaineering. Conceptualising mountaineering as a social field structured by masculine domination, the paper seeks to understand the conditions which have enabled the women to successfully embody a disposition to mountaineering over time and interrogates how the women's practices represent a challenge to the continuing dominance of men and hypermasculine narratives that prevail in this field. The paper shows that a number of structural changes in wider society and in mountaineering have enabled women to claim a mountaineering identity but that the field continues to be inflected by narratives of exclusion.

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“…This is manifested in self-recognition in established identities. Thus identity is also performative: gender subjectivity is constituted within gender norms which are essentialised (Shams, 2020). Butler (1988) offers a way out, proposing that the potential for challenging the gender order is possible.…”

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Rising to the Gender Challenge in Scotland: Women's Embodiment of the Disposition to be Mountaineers

Tulle

2022

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Feminist Philosophy and the Controversial Judith Butler

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Rising to the Gender Challenge in Scotland: Women's Embodiment of the Disposition to be Mountaineers

Rising to the Gender Challenge in Scotland: Women's Embodiment of the Disposition to be Mountaineers

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