The Journal of Asian Studies / Volume 74 / Issue 03 / August 2015, pp 667 686 DOI: 10.1017/S002191181500056X, Published online: 18 August 2015 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S002191181500056X How to cite this article: Jisoo M. Kim (2015). Women's Legal Voice: Language, Power, and Gender Performativity in Late Chosŏn Korea. The Journal of Asian Studies, 74, pp 667-6...

This book contributes to a fast growing critical literature assessing Judith Butler’s writings as a whole. Butler’s wide renown owes most to her oft-cited and often misunderstood account of gender performativity. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) has been a hugely influential text, seminal in the development of queer theory and of critiques from within feminism of i...

Australian TV series Underbelly: Razor represents gangsters Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine as women equipped to compete on an equal footing with their male counterparts. These women's 'toughness' is simultaneously tempered and reinforced by gestures toward stereotypes of 'female weakness', which they employ to fulfil their criminal agendas. This paper will analyse how the TV series frames these wo...

Purpose: Academics are at the forefront of criticisms about so-called “fake news” considered to undermine evidence-based approaches understanding complex social, political, and economic issues. However, universities contribute production fake news through legitimization measures that promote student performativity rewarding their academic non-achievements. This conceptual article will seek illu...

This essay invites my colleagues in business schools to do their research differently by working with and for community/grassroots organisations. Based on fieldwork experience at a free food store problematising surplus waste Aotearoa New Zealand, I offer ‘activist performativity’ as scholarship modality that builds critical praxis aligning activism, teaching socially just sustainable society. ...

Within feminist theory, as well as in other areas of thought, certain terms, hitherto rejected, bracketed or even forbidden are being reassessed and reanimated anew. ‘Ontology’, ‘materiality’, ‘evolution’ are being reasserted with an enthusiasm in seeming contradiction with radical perspectives of the recent past. Of course, with such complex terms at stake, these reassessments are not all of t...