Book of Judith

Introduction In Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era, Beatriz Preciado uses their body and their body of work as a means of transing theory. Put another way, B.P. uses a genre bending approach to writing theory to attempt to articulate the lived experience of gender ambiguity. B.P. challenges normative conceptions and understandings of bodies, theory, and modes of production in an attempt to explain the queer body. To do so, B.P. employs the radical approach…

Since the advent of civilization, society has tended to experiment with codes that regulate human morality in conformance with established norms and expectations (Halperin, 1990). Of particular interests to societal institutions is sexuality, which for the better part of the centuries leading to the 20th century has been governed by codes drawn from religion and civil laws (Foucault, 1979). Society has continuously normalized heterosexism as the appropriate form of sexuality that should be…

Facing Problem In the short story “Volar" written by Judith Ortiz Cofer and “A Pair of Ticket” written by Amy Tan share a lot of similar literacy device in the story especially the used of symbol and setting. Both story used of plot might be different but we can see many similar things in the story where the author used symbol and Setting to portray most of the story and used dialogue to back it up so that the reader can understand what is going on in the story. In this world,…

Growing up in a world where there is so much pressure to be successful, numerous people are frightened of being ostracized for being themselves. As a young child, completely care free, opinions of others or how they might look at me never crossed my mind. But the older we get, conforming to the rules became the norm, a drastic change occurred as a yearning for acceptance grew. In the articles by Bordo, Appiah and Foucault, readers can see a range of views presented as they elaborate further into…

Critical review of the article Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory by Judith Butler Gender is a difficult term to define. Some people might think it is the external characteristics of a person what marks it, others believe it is what it is what you feel inside, and another may hold that is what society imposes them. This critical review examines an article that argues that “gender identity is a performative accomplishment compelled by social…

When I took the AP Language and Composition course my junior year of high school, I scored a three on the exam. As a student who always enjoyed English and did well in the subject, this was a low point, but . However, I still loved literature and knewI still wanted to become an English major at college. That is how I ended up in Dr. Clermont-Ferrand’s “Introduction to English Studies” class. Looking back at my work throughout this course, I noticed that I have a slight preference in applying…

The Responses Surprisingly, Benhabib does not in her response retreat very far from his prior positions and need to stake out an ontological subject. She questions the very validity/reliability of performativity by asking “whether Butler’s…theory of the constitution of gender identity can do justice to the complexities of the ontogenetic origins of gender identity in the human person…or whether…this view can anticipate, indicate, lead us to rethink a new configuration of subjectivity (108).…

In the play Helen by Euripides the main character, Helen often finds herself in complicated situations. To get out of those situations, Helen believes that her only option is to manipulate, deceive, and lie to people. Helen’s main goal is to be reunited with her husband, Menelaos, in her homeland. Helen persuades characters to do things her way by manipulation, lies, and deception. Throughout Helen, the main character manipulates Teucros, Menelaos, and Theoclymenos using deception, persuasion,…

During the American Revolution women’s equality was put into question when women were not offered the same rights as men. One of the early women to advocate this idea was Judith Sargent Murray. Judith Sargent Murray was an early American woman who proposed Women’s rights, an essayist, playwright, poet, and letter writer. Murray’s ideas about women’s rights were considered extreme in the 1700s. Murray asserted education should be equally offered to women as the same as men and argued for women to…

Censorship of Black like Me Roman, Y, Shemakov McClintock High School Abstract This report goes on to examine if the banning of the book "Black Like Me" was based on a reasonable grounds, and how censorship should be approached in the modern day and age. The paper concludes that the banning of the book was merely arbitrary, and the idea of censorship is an unnecessary evil that should be avoided at all costs, no matter how pejorative or invidious the language is, it has the right to exist and…