Judith Butler

flexible and ever changing. Butler argues in her work, Gender Trouble, that gender is a form of improvised performance and that it is socially constructed rather than something of nature. The idea of gender being socially constructed is reinforced by society through the media and culture as well. Butler states that people have made the mistake of categorizing characteristics because of someone’s sex. The idea of labeling people as male or female is incorrect, according to Butler, because…

constructed by the person and others in his society. Contrary to this established idea, Judith Butler, in her book Undoing Gender, sees that gender can be done by resisting and escaping from the clutches of the social norm through which gender is recognized. She argues: “I may feel that without some recognizability I cannot live. But I may also feel that the terms by which I am recognized make life unlivable”(4). Butler strikes many examples of gender resistance to social recognition such as…

Judith Butler is a feminist who focuses her philosophical work on gender theory within the community. When talking about gender she brings up many different theories within her works. A couple ways Butler thinks is within the LGBT community and how those people come about. She talks about how she truly believe that gender is different than sexuality. Lastly she speaks about how the way we porta yourself is how we see our own sexuality or how we should view it instead of the communal ways. Butler…

Bryanna Mills ENGL 110C Sarah Camp 10/6/14 Literary Analysis Judith Butler once said, “...gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself...what they imitate is a fantastic ideal of heterosexual identity...gay identities work neither to copy nor emulate heterosexuality, but rather, to expose…

people it appears as if there is also a certain degree of nonconformity against these expected behaviours. With an intention to articulate these questions about identity and positions of hierarchy within our society, Judith Butler’s theory of performativity explains…

Sex/Gender/Desire,” Gender Trouble, Judith Butler explores the idea of are we assigned our gender at birth? or do we simply perform one based on the values we have learned? Butler argues sex and gender are not the same thing. In the distinction, sex refers to the biological male or female category defined by our internal and external reproductive organs and chromosomes while gender refers to socially created roles, feelings, and behaviors deemed appropriate for men and women by society. Butler…

Oneself,” Judith Butler describes how the problem with violence is that it destroys the lives of humans, and it is sometimes not recognized because of pre-determined concepts of who is human. In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” Gloria Anzaldua explains how Mexicans are excluded because of how they speak both English and Spanish. Media outlets mold our views by putting emphasis on the topics they find important while ignoring other topics and us as teenagers don’t even recognize what is happening.…

Theorists like Micheal Foucault and Judith Butler have provided great insight on various topics and critiquing what does not get questioned. Foucault has inspired Butler when it comes to the topics of gender and sex. Butler challenges the ideas that have been inculcated in our own culture by exposing the truth behind what is considered normal and critiquing the binaries in society. Queer theory is important to address because of the lack of knowledge our society has on queerness. Butler’s ideas…

Gender In the reading From Undoing Gender by Judith Butler has some points about what is gender and how people define gender. Which gender is defined whether we have a vagina or a penis though she talks about what happened with a boy/girl name Brenda which her classmates made fun of and also threaten her because she acted too much like a boy for example when they caught her peeing standing up. Brenda is now named David and is more like a boy which Butler tells the story of David and everything…

The Occupy Movement according to EMERCENCE Wendy brown, Harvey, Hammond, Judith Butler and WOULD SAY THE occupy movement began with the inspiration of the Arab spring and the Obama autumn as neoliberal deregulation that promises each man for himself but makes it difficult for 99 percent of American to participate in the American Dream due bank bailouts and accumulation by distribution which caused many people to lose their homes, (one of the major wealth building assets). Accompanied by a…