Judith Butler

CHAPTER 1: 1.0 Introduction The gender division of labour varies significantly across societies. In some cultures women can actively participate in working outside of the secure area which is their home, while in other society, women is been put into their specific tasks that connected according to their gender lines where women tend to remain inside the home and do not participate in activities outside of the domestic situation. Gender roles and stereotypes is not a new issue in the world…

The Face Behind the Mask What does identity tell us about someone? In my opinion, our identity is not only our race, gender or sexuality. When we identify someone, we should identify people by their thoughts and actions. Susan Griffin, a feminist writer who focuses around the interconnectedness between human beings and how they are connected whether they are strangers or friends of friends, wrote an essay that focuses on Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Secret Police. “He does not exist…

Kimberly Theidon: Reconstructing Masculinities: The Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration of Former Combatants in Colombia As you rightly pointed out in your reading prompts, Theidon uses a sophisticated gender lens to explore questions of alternative masculinities, the bodies, and emotion. Nevertheless, a deeper reflection on her article reveals important ways in understanding how different forms of masculinities and formed. Her observations are quite astounding because it is often…

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In Feminist settings, conversations surrounding pornographic content and its influence are often polarizing; the discrepancy of attitudes towards pornography between opposing parties can be acrimonious and fraught with tension. Radical feminists tend to take up an anti-pornography stance, citing concerns of the representation of women, violent and sexist practices of the pornography industry and violence that correlates with the consumption of pornography. Liberal, sex-positive feminists have…

philosophers’ ideas as well as her own, Butler proposes that in “the discourse of sexuality, itself suffused by power relations, becomes the true ground of the trope of the prediscursive maternal body” (Butler 92). She takes this idea further, claiming that “the clearly paternal law that sanctions and requires the female body to be characterized primarily in terms of its reproductive function is inscribed on that body as the law of its natural necessity” (Butler 93). It is clear that society in…

What does identity tell us about someone? Can they be identified without having an identity? In my opinion, identity is not something that identifies our race, gender or sexuality. I believe that when identifying someone, it comes within that person, meaning you identify someone by their thoughts and actions. Not everyone has their own identity because they can be someone who follows another person’s footsteps, but that identification technically does not belong to them. For example, I read a…

Published in 2014, Manning Up is a collection of personal essays by transgender men. Taken as a whole, the collection represents new ground in the field of transgender life writing. While memoir and autobiography by and about transgender people can be traced back at least as far as the 1960s, the genre is constituted mostly by full-length autobiographies by a single author––such as Christine Jorgenson: A Personal Autobiography, Kate Bornstein’s A Queer and Pleasant Danger, and Jameson Green’s…

woman interacting with her Black hair in any way supports Judith Butler’s concept of performative reiteration. Black beauty, in Butler’s assertion, is about the act of doing and thus from there comes the Black female identity. The act itself is illustrative of Butler’s notion that “gender is culturally constructed,” which rests on the idea that “bodies cannot be said to have a signifiable existence prior to the mark of their gender” (Butler 13). Black beauty is the repetition of hegemonic…

Free Community College for All Millions looked onward, anticipating what issues the President would address in this year’s State of the Union, would it be ISIS, tax policy, immigration, or maybe healthcare. On January 20, 2015, President Obama at his State of the Union Address, shocked the nation by proposing free community college for all Americans. The proposal for free education is arguably the biggest attempt at economic and social reform we have seen since President Franklin Delano…