ABSTRACT
In linguistic theory the question of a surplus is frequently recurring, providing us with important insights as well as a feeling of obscurity. This chapter deals with resistance, proceeding from the construction of discourses. It reviews that there are some key issues or areas within which the linguistic turn that needs to be further theorised. Edkins the question of a surplus makes visible how the construction and categorisation in 'names' twist people interpretations of the interpreted. Women who experience and remember things/feelings/happenings that do not correspond with things/feelings/happening as they prevail in our everyday gendered discourses experience a gap between the felt and the known. The male politician, who is a woman, shakes and negotiates the cultural order and the strongly separated categories of 'politicians', 'men' and 'women'. In this sense, she performs resistance against gendered norms.
