Butler and Foucault The ideas of Foucault can be seen as an influence on Butler in a number of ways. The most important of these is Foucault’s treatment of power and its relation to the body and sexuality as well as his identification of the body as the central target of power. As Butler is trying to prove that gender and sex differences are a social construct‚ the idea that those in power as well as society can shape our perceptions of our bodies and sexuality would be appealing to use. However
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Judith Butler and Performativity for Beginners (mostly in her own words) Film 165A 1. A central concept of the theory is that your gender is constructed through your own repetitive performance of gender. This is related to the idea that discourse creates subject positions for your self to occupy—linguistic structures construct the self. The structure or discourse of gender for Butler‚ however‚ is bodily and nonverbal. Butler’s theory does not accept stable and coherent gender identity. Gender
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Laurice Pettiford Savannah State University April 6‚ 2014 The situation in Africa concerning the AIDS/HIV epidemic is that aids in Africa marks a really extreme severe development crisis in Africa. This is still today the worst affected area in the world. In sub-Saharan Africa about Forty-Two million people live with HIV/AIDS. The epidemic claimed almost about 2.4 million people in Africa and about 3.1 million lives are taken each year (HIV/AIDS Situation in Africa 2014). The average life
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In an excerpt from her book‚ Gender Trouble‚ Judith Butler discusses the enigma that is gender identity‚ while clearly distinguishing between gender and sex. Claiming that gender is a “fabrication”‚ Butler is able to deconstruct the typical gender notions. Over two decades later‚ this theory is now being broadcasted to thousands of viewers each week via the popular television show‚ I am Jazz. The reality television series I am Jazz has boomed in popularity since its premiere in 2015 and follows the
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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 gender
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One of the most important quotes Judith Butler uses in her writing is seen in‚ Imitation and Gender Subordination. Judith Butler explores the ideas that gender is about a performance one must do and how gender has become an imitation of what others deem as acceptable behavior. She also explores that idea of why gender is important for a society and states‚ “Drag constitutes the mundane way in which genders are appropriated‚ theatricalized‚ worn‚ and done; it implies that all gendering is a kind of
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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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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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Judith Butler‚ attempting to bridge gender and feminist theories emphasized the notion of performance as an “analytical category that allows for critical intervention” (Hall‚ 2013‚ p. 112). Viewing identity as different facets of scripted performance‚ Butler saw the opportunity to subvert interpretation of gender and sexuality norms as an effort to destabilize hierarchical traditions‚ like those seen in medical and legal discourses (Hall‚ 2013). J. Jack Halberstam‚ who focuses on a melding of queer
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Judith Butler in Media Studies When reading a biography of Judith Butler‚ a person would typically see a discussion of a highly intelligent philosopher of feminism‚ political theory‚ ethical and moral responsibility or gender studies. Her bibliographies are commonly describes as have a career focused on “research ranging from literary theory‚ modern philosophical fiction‚ feminist‚ gender and sexuality studies‚ to 19th- and 20th-century European literature and philosophy‚ Kafka and loss‚ mourning
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