The Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar is delighted to welcome Jonathan Flowers, Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy & Religion at American University, who will be delivering a talk titled ‘The Affective Quality of Gender’:<\/p>\n
Title:<\/strong> The Affective Quality of Gender<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0While Judith Butler recognizes that identity, specifically gendered identities, are established through a stylized repetition of acts, and Shannon Sullivan connects this stylized repetition of acts to John Dewey\u2019s concept of habit, this talk will seek to advance upon these theories by presenting the gendered identity established by these habits as one that is affective and qualitative,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by placing\u00a0<\/span><\/span>both Butler and Sullivan<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in conversation with Richard Shusterman\u2019s \u201c<\/span>somaesthetics<\/span>\u201d and the aesthetic philosophy of John Dewey.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0On this view, the different gendered habits which are taken from<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>or imposed upon us by culture serve to enable an affective perception of the body as\u00a0<\/span>not only\u00a0<\/span>gendered<\/span>, but<\/span>\u00a0gendered in a specific way in line with our cultural expectations<\/span>. This affective perception serves the ground of our immediate judgments of the gender of a body and serves to enable the denotation of bodies\u00a0<\/span>as gendered\u00a0<\/span>in social space.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"philosophy-and-social-theory-seminar-3","image":false,"all_day":false,"start_date":"2021-10-06 16:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2021","month":"10","day":"06","hour":"16","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2021-10-06 18:00:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2021","month":"10","day":"06","hour":"18","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2021-10-06 15:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2021","month":"10","day":"06","hour":"15","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2021-10-06 17:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2021","month":"10","day":"06","hour":"17","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"Europe\/London","timezone_abbr":"BST","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"","currency_code":"","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/event\/philosophy-and-social-theory-seminar-2021-10-06\/","show_map":false,"show_map_link":false,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Philosophy & Social Theory Arch\u00e9 Seminar","slug":"philosophy-social-theory-arche-seminar","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":48,"filter":"raw","id":27,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/27","collection":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":[],"organizer":[],"custom_fields":[],"json_ld":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Jonathan Flowers, ‘The Affective Quality of Gender’","description":"<p>The Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar is delighted to welcome Jonathan Flowers, Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy & Religion at American University, who will be delivering a…<\/p>\\n","url":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/philosophy-and-social-theory-seminar-3\/","eventAttendanceMode":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OfflineEventAttendanceMode","eventStatus":"https:\/\/schema.org\/EventScheduled","startDate":"2021-10-06T16:00:00+01:00","endDate":"2021-10-06T18:00:00+01:00","performer":"Organization"},"is_virtual":false,"virtual_url":null,"virtual_video_source":""}