Judith Butler

Chapter 1 Introduction Jonathan Earl Franzen, an American writer, is one of the most acclaimed novelist and essayist of today’s era. Born in Western Springs, Illinois on August 17, 1959 this prolific writer has contributed greatly in the industry of literature by producing number of creative pieces of work throughout his writing career. Franzen was brought up in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. In 1981 he graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in German. His…

fluid, it is not a strict separation between males and females. Gender fluidity is good for when a person does not feel like they are at one end of the spectrum or the other. This idea of gender fluidity was coined by post-modern gender theorist – Judith Butler. She expressed in her book ‘Gender Trouble’ her support for “those historical and anthropological positions that understand gender as a relation among socially constituted subjects in specifiable contexts”. This approach suggests that…

of understanding, which is why it took 20 years for MSU students to make an organization. Conflict theory can be applied to both gender and race (Marx, 1997). Gender conflict theory, which is expressed well by both Simone de Beauvoir (1949) and Judith Butler (1990) where women are seen as the other to men. Men are in power and women are secondary to them, creating conflict. This is obvious at MSU with it’s history. MSU as an institution has always given men more power than women (Exhibits,…

Culture and science has molded society in such a way that it functions in a heteronormative view. People of different sexualities and gender; bisexuals, homosexuals and transgender, struggle to fit in with everyone. Since bisexuals, homosexuals and transgender people have the same flesh and blood as every human being, does that not make them the same as you and I? I will argue that heteronormativity is a norm that we as human beings should no longer follow and evolve to a more diverse and equal…

Paper One- Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen” Connection to Black Lives Matter: The racial atmosphere of American society has always been overwhelmingly glaring since the foundation of the country through the establishment and institution of chattel slavery. This unique and particularly brutal form of slavery established the trend of discriminating against a group of people solely based on skin color, particularly targeting those of African descent, which has been ongoing in some form all throughout…

IN her well known essay “When we dead awaken : wring as re-vision”Adrienne Rich advocated the idea that it is necessary to revisit known stories from a new critical point of view inoreder to gain a new understanding of gender and Patriarchy. In her essay she defines revisioning as “the act of looking back with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction, is for us [ women] more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival. Until we understand the assumptions…

Entry one: Various creativity seminars motivated me to think about the following question. ‘as a society, are we really as inclusive as we like to think we are? For the purpose of this assignment, I chose the film The Young Offenders as my object of discussion and reflection. Life for people with disabilities has changed drastically over the last 30 years. Society has moved on from the medical model, which focussed on the impairment. Whereas, the social model, which arose in response to a…

Drag performances, however, when analyzed are shown to parody the performative actions that have been categorized and ultimately deemed original to each gender role. Sarah Salih notes this of drag in On Judith Butler and Performativity saying, “it is the very notion of an original that is being parodied…” What Salih is attempting to convey in her statement is that the concept of there being an original way of performing gender and its roles is faulty as well…

The popularity of the “Cinderella Dream” has dramatically dwindled since the 1950s. Waiting for Prince Charming to come dashing into a woman’s life, marrying, having his kids, and finding satisfaction with staying home and tending to the needs of one’s family had been a dream across all walks of life for women. But now instead of telling young girls to search for glass slippers, society now stresses that those girls ignore antiquated practices that create male dominated professional hierarchies…

I recently attended A Christmas Wonderland, a drag show made up of some of RuPaul’s most talent drag queens such as; Roxxxy Andrews, Kim Chi, Latrice Royale, Naomi Smalls and many others. This was unlike any drag show I had been to before because instead of being in a small bar with limited seating and dingy lighting, it was in a real performance hall where the Nutcracker was being performed the following week. The first thing I immediately noticed was just how many different kinds of people…