Women's will (Butler)

"A great deal of feminist theory and literature has nevertheless assumed that there is a 'doer' behind the deed. Without an agent, it is argued, there can be no agency and hence no potential to initiate a transformation of relations of domination within society.'" (Gender Trouble) The feminist problems which, at least, on the level of theory, torment me the most, always come down to the question of free-will. It was when I wrote the blog Performative women that I confronted the issue of "political lesbianism" ; it's not a subversion of the patriarchy to think heterosexual women have no agency outside of men's desires if desire for women still equates to agency. I was reading Irigaray's Speculum of the Other woman, too, where I noticed men have access to an agentive "acting" while women's actions are relegated to some sort of superficial performance. Reading Gender Trouble by Judith Butler now led me back to this thread on performativity. Another problem of free-will addressed by…