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Agency within Constraint

Judith Butler EN

The notion that agency is not an expression of completely free will, but rather a partial and relational capacity that emerges within discursive and institutional constraints.

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The notion that agency is not an expression of completely free will, but rather a partial and relational capacity that emerges within discursive and institutional constraints. Analyses of education and gender emphasize that, while reiterating norms, the subject can also stretch and rework them; thus, subject formation always entails both subjection and the possibility of deviation or resistance.