En/Gendering Trouble with J. J. Abrams's Rey in The Force Awakens: Re-Subjecting the Subject to a Performative Subjectivity

Episode VII: The Force Awakens follows a trend in disrupting the privileging of the heroic protagonist as male, refusing to frame women by enforcing a particularly male self-projected binary for popular consumption. Yet this article argues in the first place that this turn is less transgressive of h...

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Published in:Journal of religion and popular culture
Main Author: McDowell, John C. 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Saskatchewan [2019]
In: Journal of religion and popular culture
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Star wars: episode VII - The force awakens / Hero / Subjectivism / Gender-specific role / Cartesianism
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
Further subjects:B Agency
B Feminisms
B Force
B Luke
B Rey
B Lucas
B binarism
B Cartesianism
B Star Wars
B Training
B Abrams
B Leia
B Subjectivity
B Autonomy
B Haraway
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