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I turn to Judith Butler to clarify my term "corporate globalization trouble" as well as to explain why this trouble should be situated in gendered terms regarding power, visibility, and subjectivity inequities. [1] Butler describes deviant gender identities failing to coincide with the "matrix of intelligibility": "precisely because certain kinds of 'gender identities' fail to conform to those norms of cultural intelligibility, they appear only as developmental failures or logical impossibilities from within that domain. Their persistence and proliferation, however, provide critical opportunities to expose the limits and regulatory aims of that domain of intelligibility and, hence, to open up within the very terms of that matrix of intelligibility rival and subversive matrices of gender disorder" (Butler 24). Women and the feminine do not conform to the norms of how globalization's critics describe its cultural impact and consequences; women are, with few exceptions, silenced within the domain of this discourse. However, since globalization most certainly impacts upon women, their presence provides a feminist theorist with opportunities to critique anti-globalization discourse and, by doing so, to coin "globalization trouble" to subvert the silences subversives perpetuate.
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Barr, Marleen S.. "The Invisible Can Or, Gendering Corporate Globalization Trouble: Technological Utopianism and the Language of Erasure." 1, 1 (2025). https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol1/iss1/1
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