Judith Butler

ethnographies which are now recognized as constituting a distinctive semi-literary genre” (Abu-Lughod 1990: 8-9). This question of, what is ethnography, is common amongst feminist scholars. Before Abu-Lughod’s (1990) essay, social analyst and sociologist, Judith Stacy, asked the same question in her essay titled, “Can There Be a Feminist Ethnography?” In addition, in 1994, anthropologist Kamala Visweswaran sought to answer the question in her book, Fictions of Feminist Ethnography. Furthemore,…

This question leads to an extended list of other similar questions: what is the point of showing details of a dead body? Why is it exhibited in an art gallery? Is it a piece of art? Is observing death and suffering from a distance, and from the safe room of the gallery, pleasurable to the viewer? Does the interaction with death become entertaining and acceptable because of the detachment from the situation? On the other hand, does the exposed dead body contribute to the history of the place…

Motivation In terms of motivation, I can ask the guardians the following question: What made you to be a guardian in the first place? Why do you choose this particular profession? Do you enjoy working with UME? To what extent are you happy with your profession? What are the key values that drove you to do the job you do? In my opinion, answering these questions are crucial because the minute I have the answers for these questions, the minute I will be able to understand the world of the…

do so without a text to first activate a reading. Ground-breaking feminist thinkers such as Judith Butler can provide us with a rough framework by which we may explore gender identity in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon. Her exploration of the difference between biological sex and gender identity lay a foundation by which gender can be defined – namely, as a historical situation rather than as a natural fact (Butler, 1988). Butler’s exploration into performativity and its subsequent relation on gender…

experiences their sexual identity is predetermined by their sex and gender. In this approach, sexuality is stable, predictable, and inherent because it is biologically acquired at birth (Rubin 1999:149). In his work, Seidman explain the theories of Judith Butler where society is organized into two distinct gender identities, male and female, which in turn influence ideas of sexual identity and attraction. In an essentialist perspective, an individual who is given the label of male at birth,…

Aladdin, is set in the big bustling town of Agrabah. The society is filled with poverty and crime, with a division between the rich and poor. Aladdin who is a “street rat”, doesn’t have much and has to commit crimes to be able to eat and survive, he even shares his meals with people who have less than him and have to forage for food elsewhere. Throughout the movie, he has to go through multiple challenges to find the genie lamp pertaining to the evil character Jafar, as he is trying to take over…

identities . After all these people eventually reach a stage where they are able to be who they really are but it may take some time and effort on their part. In the video clip “ Your behavior create your gender “ by Judith Butler states” no one is really gender from the start" Basically Butler is saying…

Shyam Selvadurai’s 1994 Funny Boy is a coming of age novel that tells the story of Arjie, a young boy like any another, enduring the vicissitudes of life. Throughout his journey of self-discovery, Arjie experiences the trials and joys of love in all its forms. Shyam Selvadurai himself is a homosexual Sri Lankan Canadian novelist born in Colombo, Sri Lanka to a Sinhalese mother and a Tamil father. In 1983, the family emigrated to Canada due to ethnic riots that were severely damaging the country.…

Male and female are the two gender identities/ideals that we have been living with for as long as we’ve known. Not until recently have people started looking at gender, sexual identity and feminism differently. In the past, anyone who claimed they were neither male nor female was diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder (GID) or more commonly known as Gender Dysphoria. Today, gender can be seen as a spectrum, with more than two opposing ideals to many. Gender roles, feminism are all portrayed…

Throughout the content of this essay I am going to be concentrating on Adrian Piper and Oreet Ashery who have both focused on their bodies as a means to pinpoint alternative models of representation that address gender and race. As well as this I will be discussing to what extent both artists resist the discourse of western patriarchal society. Piper, aged 67, was born in New York on 20th September 1948 and is an American Conceptual Artist and Philosopher. She campaigned for social change and…