Gender Performance Flashcards
Who has been the main author of gender performance? What is the name of her text?
Butler, Judith : Gender Trouble
What is the main debate behind Gender Performance?
Is gender derivative of sex or is it all just a performance?
What are the different positions in the debate of Gender Performance?
Extreme: Biological Sex determines gender
Center: Biology determines some of gender but social determines some too.
Extreme: Biological sex has nothing to do to gender. (PERFORMATIVITY)
What does performativity stand by? What writer developed this idea?
Biological sex has nothing to do to gender Judith Butler
- Gender is performative
- There is no pre-existing gender identity.
What causes gender according to Burlter?
When women use makeup is performance for both drag queens/kings and reality (men/women).
- Regularized performances is what causes gender
Gender arises from repeated practices.
- Repeated practices can be either a decision or can also be by obligation (hijab, dress codes).
How can gender norms be spread in society?
- These ideas are spread through language
- The body is a surface and scene of cultural inscription
Example:
Removing hair
Earings
What did Judith Butler day about sexual orientation?
- Homosexuality is construed as deviant, taboo like incest.
Using Penal Code - Compulsory heterosexuality & gender hierarchy
- We regularly punish those who fail to do their gender right.
Relationship between performative and queer theory
Judith believe in performativity gives path to queer theory: discourse shapes our experience of reality rather than vice versa.
