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What is 'performativity?'
Performativity of gender is stylized repetition of acts, an imitation or miming of the dominant conventions of gender.
How does Butler contribute to this theory?
In her book, Gender Trouble pub 1990, she argues that "the act that one does, the act one performs is, in a sense, an act that's been going on before one arrived on the scene.
Gender is the repeated stylization of the body, a set of repeated acts within a highly rigid regulatory framework that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance of a natural sort of being.
Q: In a the video 'The Best of Louis Spence' how does he use language in performing a gender identity?
Concrete nouns like: "Queen" "Darling"
Talking about cleaning and challenges masculine styles.
His behaviour is:
Camp
Eccentric
Fuel on.
Q: In the 'Father Knows Best' speech event done by the linguists (Ochts and Taylor, 1993) what does it show?
The dinnertime speech event showed reproducing gender speaking roles and rights
Introducer: Mother
- "You wanna tell Daddy what happened to you today?"
Protagonists: Mother, children.
Recipient: Father.
Evualuator/Monitor/Judge: Father
-"Your mother said you were thinking of getting on the swim team? Good.
Q: What did Eckert & McConnel-Ginet in 1993 say about 'performativity being about style'
" Style is a combination of what we do and how we do it. "
Q: What masculine and feminine styles are available for us and how do we perform them?
Adjectives
- more blunt for men "cool", "alright"
- more descriptive for women "pretty"
House
Different feminine/masculine roles.
Man decision maker through declaratives
Women supporting doesn't have active role.
Tag questions - women use them, mainly for uncertainty
Men more blunt/aggressive - showing less emotion.
Feminine style - more gentle/softer in the way they speak.
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