According to Judith Butler’s theory of “gender performativity,” gender is a social construct. It’s created and reinforced through the repetitive performance of certain signifiers, which society sets. Society explicitly seeks to reach and teach women how to behave in certain ways, until these ...
21. African-American Criticism 53:58 22. Post-Colonial Criticism 54:42 26. Reflections Who Doesn't Hate Theory Now 49:48 23. Queer Theory and Gender Performativity 49:55 24. The Institutional Construction of Literary Study 50:53 25. The End of Theory Neo-Pragmatism 53:33 1...
Queer theory and gender performativity [Introduction to theory of Literature]This video lecture from Professor Paul H. Fry examines Queer theory in the works of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, and why this topic is important to literary criticism.Paul H. Fry...
This essay approaches the oeuvre of the contemporary American author Rebecca Brown as an illuminating fictional exploration of Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity. Brown's work defamiliarizes characters' acquisition of gender and sexuality while also showing some of the culturally specific ...
23. Queer Theory and Gender Performativity 150 2019-08 8 24. The Institutional Construction of Literary Study 123 2019-08 9 25. The End of Theory; Neo-Pragmatism 71 2019-08 10 26. Reflections; Who Doesn't Hate Theory Now 104 2019-08 ...
(Im)mobilizing Theory: The Limits of Gender Performativity and Disability Drag (Or, Why Lady Gaga Can Be a Dude But Not a Crip)Cleary, Krystal
This is a scholarly paper titled 'Queering Plato: Plato’s Allegory of the Cave as a Queer-Theoretic Emancipatory Text on Sexuality and Gender' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose....
I then look at Butler's foun- dational work, illustrating that her arguments on the interrelatedness of sex/sexuality/gender and also on gender performativity are reinforced by the inclusion of bisexuality. Keywords: queer theory, bisexuality, sexual identity, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler ...
(gender). Clover argues that it is this 'theatricalization of gender' which feminises the audience. Whereas in classic horror (e.g. films by Hitchcock and De Palma) the feminisation of the audience is intermittent and ceases when the Final Girl becomes the designated victim (Marion in Psycho...
greatest gay film of all time (AfterElton). Para 2: However, one can argue that Queen’s I Want to Break Free, could be seen as a heterosexual text. One can argue that drag is not queer because drag is a performance – the idea that anyone can perform drag regardless of gender and...