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    Judith Butler Masculinity

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    Judith Butler questions the notion that certain gendered behaviors are a result of learning the performance of gender behavior‚ that which is associated with masculinity and femininity. She argues that it is a social construction that is only true to the extent of it being performed. Gender as defined in Undoing Gender is a “practice of improvisation within a scene of constraint‚” which is within a social context. The stylization of the body‚ gestures‚ movements and enactments create these

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    Judith Butler Stereotypes

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    The notion that gender is socially constructed is an idea that Judith Butler argues against‚ instead she suggests that gender does not exist. Butler states that gender cannot exist until performed‚ these acts that are performed are merely repetitions of pre-established behaviour. Instead we impersonate what we believe to be gender and gender appropriate‚ these gender conventions that are impossible to maintain as every person is different. (Butler 2009) It is these learned behaviours that establish

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    "Offering Truth" was painted by Kendra Runnells. This painting has a lot of life lessons and meaning. The colors in the painting give off a sad and dark feel‚ but one can see another person giving instead of receiving and it also shows that it is sometimes better to stand alone than to go along with the crowd. Throughout the painting one can see darkness and sadness. It appears to be raining. When it rains‚ it sometimes makes people sad. It also makes things really dark‚ not just the sky‚ but also

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    Cofer - The Myth of the Latin Woman: I just met a girl named Maria March 4‚ 2009 As Judith Ortiz Cofer says in her essay “mixed cultural signals have perpetuated certain stereotypes” (49). Since something can be natural in a determined culture and offensive in another‚ it is easy to find a variety of behaves that are misunderstood. This misunderstood is what promotes the existence of prejudice. The stereotypes should be ignored and forgotten by people. Each individual should be judge by its work

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    What does friend true meaning? A friend is a person who is attached to another with feelings of affection. In the essay called “Friends‚ Good Friends - and Such Good Friends” by Judith Viorst talks about many different types of friendship that women have. The women have various kinds of friendship bonds than what the men do. Viorst tells us a point she would have said a friend is a friend all the way. However‚ the truth is that friendship with a person can be different with another person. But‚

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    Legend by Judith Wright

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    Legend by Judith Wright - 1915-2000‚ 
written in 1949 and published in 
anthology ’The Gateway’ in 1953. The blacksmith’s boy went out with a rifle and a black dog running behind. Cobwebs snatched at his feet‚ rivers hindered him‚ thorn branches caught at his eyes to make him blind and the sky turned into an unlucky opal‚ but he didn’t mind. I can break branches‚ I can swim rivers‚ I can stare out                            any spider I meet‚ said he to his dog and his rifle. The

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    Judith Beveridge poems

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    Poetry offers a new way to look at familiar situations. Judith Beveridge does this in three of poems. “The Domesticity of giraffes”‚ “Fox in a tree stump” and “The Two Brothers”. Through the use of repetition and personification she incorporates her feelings about cruelty towards animals and humans. She uses these techniques in all three of her poems. Poetry shows the reader a new way to look at familiar situations and in her poem “The Domesticity of Giraffes” she uses repetition to show the cruelty

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    Judith Butler Response

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    Lindsey Cox 1/27/13 Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy Response Judith Butler’s Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy is an extremely philosophical essay that asks many questions that challenges the reader to look within themselves to search for their own interpretation of what they believe the answer to be. The first statement that Butler opens with is‚ "What makes for a livable world is no idol question". This statement almost seems like a question directed to the reader

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    For this week’s reading memo‚ I will be looking at The Social Construction of Gender by Judith Lorber‚ and Getting Off and Getting Intimate: How Normative Institutional Arrangements Structure Black and White Fraternity Men’s Approaches toward Women by Rashawn Ray and Jason A. Rasow. In The Social Construction of Gender‚ the most obvious argument lies within the title of the reading itself‚ Lorber is arguing that gender is a social construct yet still has an effect on people’s lives. One example

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    The response paper Youngil Hong The Psychic Life of Power- Judith Butler Butler surveys the ideas of Hegel‚ Althusser‚ and Foucault around subject formation‚ interrogating how power produces its subject and how that subject comes to perceive itself as one. Butler understands power as forming the subject and as providing the very condition of its existence. I believe that her basic idea is that the subjects become attached to the conditions of their own subjectivity even if these conditions

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