The Diversity Model

Question 1

What does it mean?

Answer 1

Gender performivity- we act as society tells us to??

Question 2

Judith Butler- what was the name of her book & when was it released?

Answer 2

1990 book ‘Gender Troubles’

Question 3

What does Judith Butler say about gender?

Answer 3

It is man-made, our role in society expects us to perform to dominant societal norms
They become the internal truth and determine our self-image

Constant binary system- either a man or a woman

Question 4

What does Judith Butler’s theory overall suggest?

Answer 4

Fundamentally, the capacity for a woman’s language is same as men- gender is constructed through our use of language not the other way around

Question 5

What supports Judith Butler’s theory?

Answer 5

If gender was naturally existing, everyone would think of it the same. Idea of what makes a woman in China very different to in America.
Gender inconsistent so must be a product of human categorisation

Language as a tool

Question 6

Deborah Cameron

Answer 6

Any contrasts between each gender is due to dominant societal expectations

Question 7

What does Deborah Cameron call the way men & women think they are supposed to speak

Answer 7

‘Verbal hygiene’

This is how we use language to impose order in society