Judith Butler

Traditionally, society has implemented the gender binary of male/female. This binary stays constant due to the power society places in the concept. The details of the separate categories may change a little, but the binary has stayed in place. “Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts,” (“Gender” 2552). Different portrayals of gender change how the society views the binary but never is the binary completely…

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson was a key figure in feminist disability studies. Within the critical framework of feminist disability studies, disability becomes a representational system rather than a medical problem; meaning that whoever has a disability or was seen as different did not represent what was considered beautiful throughout our society. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson wrote an article titled “Misfits: A Feminist Materialist Disability Concept”, which has many strengths and weaknesses. Her…

I’ve found many sources that I believed are useful and important for my research process, and each of these sources contains different type of information that I believed will increase my knowledge about the disability. My first source is “Addressing The challenge of disability In Later Life”, this book described the later life of a disabled person: lifelong disabilities and acquired disabilities of aging. It answered many questions, like what does it mean to live with disabilities? What does it…

Homophobia is a dislike of or prejudice against homosexual people. People who claim to be gay, lesbian or bisexual are still human, they have the same rights as we do, even if they do not follow the “social norms” of liking the opposite sex. Dude, You’re a Fag by C.J. Pascoe presents a variety of examples that show that our society has a problem with people being anything other than straight. Homophobia is more than hate speech in high school but the central concept around which adolescent…

Theorizing Masculinity: Multiplicity, Embodiment, Politics Feminist theory has sought to undo the binary opposition of man/woman and male/female, to varying degrees of success. What appears to still be intact, if only for its common use by the very theorists who would seek to unravel it, is a third binary: masculinity/femininity. As such, this paper focuses on arguments about the former term, masculinity, presented in two important works: Masculinities by Raewyn Connell and Female Masculinity…

surgery. The book focuses on the concept of fluidity, whether this is applied to sexuality, gender or bodily changes. Nelson’s memoir builds on quotations and ideas from a diverse array of authors, philosophers and artists, including Catherine Opie, Judith Butler, Allen Ginsberg and Roland Barthes, whose theoretical and critical ideas and concepts she applies to her own experiences and observations. By applying these theories and criticisms…

zor nabo. Hamu wak yak boyn, There were not so many differences. We were all similar”. In other words, the gaps between the haves and have-nots were not so wide. In the 1990s, almost all people lacked access to similar things, which is no longer the case. The new polarization, and inequality anger people more than the actually lack of things. Today, not having means something different to the different groups and people are live together with very different lifestyles. And for the majority who…

Upon Romeo and Mercutio’s first encounter, Mercutio attempts to coerce Romeo to dance. However, Romeo is lovesick for Rosaline and refuses. Romeo highlights the difference between him and Mercutio by responding, “Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of led.” Mercutio responds by poking fun at what he considers to be Romeo’s childish and immature views on love. He laughs at Romeo and says, “You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings and soar with them above…

In Judith Butler’s, “Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy”, Butler wrestles with the problem of dehumanization. She also makes a point about the “conjugal frames” of society and how it dehumanizes people on a larger Discourse, “On the level of discourse, certain live are not considered…

These movements tease apart the human/nonhuman binary through their use of transhuman figures. This approach fully materializes later in 20th century Postmodern and Posthumanist thinking, with the likes of theorists Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, and biologist Julian Huxley, who coined the term “transhumanism” in his essay of the same name. Just as Postmodernist thinking argues for the necessity of deconstructing categories and the ways of thinking built upon them, Futurism and Vorticism’s…