Analysis Of Judith Butler´s Gender Trouble

As a child, gender and sex meant nearly the same thing, both referred to whether you were a male or a female. But that 's not the case. Gender is a term designed by culture to define male and female characteristics and goals. Sex, on the other hand, was the biological concept that defined you as a male or female based on chromosomes and anatomy. Each different stage that occurs from childhood until adulthood, has a different influence on a person’s sexual and gender development.
The first stage in Kohlberg 's stages of gender development was gender labeling. This phase occurrs between the ages, two to four. During this stage, the child would recognize his sex through observation of others appearance. During this stage, kids might identify themselves …show more content…
In places like India, a woman 's role is to be subservient to her husband and has to stay at home to take care of children .Meanwhile men are the breadwinners of the family. In North America, men are expected to take the woman out on a date while women handle taking care of the children. But Judith Butler in her essay "Gender Trouble", disagrees with gender roles. Butler talks about the heterosexual matrix; people believe that certain behaviors belong to a certain gender and that this was a natural occurrence. But Butler states that is not natural rather it is an act put on by people so that they can adhere to the rules established by culture. Gender typing, the acquisition of a masculine or feminine role, is more flexible for women than men. Women can play sports and be a ‘tom-boy’, but men can not knit or do similar things like that. This is due to familial and peer pressure, boys are more restricted than women when it comes to trying different things. Family is instrumental to childhood development because kids observe and imitate elders. But Judith Harris through her essay "The Nurture Assumptions: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do" doesn 't believe in this point of view. She states that peers have a greater influence on the child 's development than the parents. She back this theory up with evolution, our ancestors used to live in groups unlike the modern nuclear family. A child 's character and development are influenced by how the child is viewed, treated, and accepted by their peer groups. This is interesting because scientists are testing whether, kids grow up to become gay or lesbian because they weren 't accepted for who they were as a