Exam 3 (Judith Butler)

Question 1

Definition of “Performativity?

Answer 1

How we see one another, repeating the norms. Not you choose of what we wear. (Ex - as a man, you can wear pink IF you have enough of the other citations that say to others that you are a certain gender)

Question 2

How is performativity different than performing?

Answer 2

Performance, is when you are a radical fabrication of gendered self, performativity is not that.

Question 3

What is Citationality? how is it connected to gender norms?

Answer 3

Put on a gender performance that references certain gender norms. (Ex - Im a man so Im going to wear a manly suit.) This is directly connected to the gender norms.(already understood in social context)

Question 4

What is Iterability? How is it connected to gender norms?

Answer 4

happening over and over in multiple contexts

- need more than one citation to create intelligibility
- can't do these once, its repetition
- citations are never actually replicated, we dont look look the same but become ledigble 
- ppl can see and understand your gender

Question 5

How does Butler problemize notions of individual agency?

Answer 5

Gendered norms, as an individual you don’t completely control how the world sees you.

Question 6

What did butler mean when she said that the subject must first be recognized through discourse?

Answer 6

There is no authentic you, or “I”, Until you are recognized, there is not a you.

Question 7

How does butler use the term Queer?

Answer 7

QUEER - Something away from the normative (Ex - Joeseph Hansen identified as queer)

Noun: Prejorative e.g., you are such a queer

Adjective: Reclaiming identity label, e.g., “I am queer man”

Verb: Various usages to point out and /or move away from normatively, e.g., “We are queering the text by highlighting the heteronormative assumptions.”