Packet 11: Tossup 11

This thinker discussed how the differential recognition of death impacts people’s “grievability” in a collection of essays about ethics after 9/11 titled Precarious Life. This thinker drew on Foucault to argue that individuals are formed out of normative constraint (15[1])and power. (15[1])This thinker wrote about how abjection (15[1])occurs if compulsory ideas are not socially cited in the essay (*) Bodies That Matter. (10[2])This thinker critiqued medical discourse in arguing (-5[1])that the central concept is not an inner essence (10[1])but a norm-governed (10[1])repetition. For 10 (-5[1])points, name this leading figure in queer theory who argued that the title concept is (10[1])performative rather (10[1])than (10[1])innate (10[2]-5[1])in the book Gender (10[1])Trouble. (10[2])■END■ (10[3]0[5])

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