Gender perfomativity - Judith Butler Flashcards
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Outline
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society and culture create gender roles, and these roles are prescribed as ideal or appropriate behaviour for a person of that specific gender.
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Argument
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It is more valid to perceive gender as a performance in which an individual agent acts for a social audience.
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The social nature of human beings
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most actions are witnessed, reproduced and internalised and thus take on a performative or theatric quality.
