Theories Flashcards
What is Judith Butler’s theory in summary?
-representation of sexuality and gender in the media
What is Judith Butler’s theory in detail?
Biological sex
-sex assigned at birth->female XX, intersex (combination of both characteristics), male XY
Gender
-male or female
Gender identity (how you identify)
-man/boy, transgender/genderqueer/two-spirited etc, woman/girl
Gender expression
-how you look/express yourself
-masculine, androgynous, feminine
Sexuality
-attracted to women, attracted to men, attracted to both and attracted to neither
What is Judith Butler’s idea of gender performativity?
-how genders express themselves (not performing/performance not acting)
What does Judith Butler see gender and sexuality as?
a spectrum
Where can Judith Butler’s theory be tested?
-news
-long form tv dramas
What is Judith Butler’s Gender Performativity theory?
-trying to challenge the idea that there is only
-gender is created in how we perform our gender roles - there is no essential gender identity behind these roles, it is created in the performance. Trying to challenge the ‘norm’ of having just masculine men or feminine women.
-there is an issue with saying ‘are you a man or a woman’ because it is loaded because there is a performative part of gender->gender is constantly shown and represented to us and so we have to consciously think about which box we fit
-the norms of gender is culturally formed
What is Judith Butler’s theory as a summarised version but compiling all the ideas?
-it is not helpful to have 2 fixed genders
-gender performativity is apparent due to stereotypes of the 2 genders -there are spectrums/scales of gender and sexuality and that shows how the way we think about gender should be challenged by the theories
-gender shouldn’t be a fixed identity and you should challenge the social constructs of gender
-the behaviours of each gender that are adapted are due to social norms and that shouldn’t be the case
