Judith Butler

2. Introduction Edgar Allan Poe’s much quoted assessment that “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world” (Poe 1846, 165) opens a much-discussed dialogue that leads to two main questions. Why is it death, and in particular the death of a woman that is considered thus poetical, and, as I want to add, political? With this B.A. thesis, I want to try and answer these questions, while especially focusing on female death in the form of suicide. I want to…

performance of gender rather than her stance on the issues, leaving her open to sexist criticism and making people less likely to vote for her. Overall the spectacle of the performance of gender is a big distraction that can be used to get votes. Using Judith Butler’s framework, it can be seen that both Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump’s performance of gender is a tactic to gather support…

Sabrina Butler Professor Adams English 103 5/14/15 Outlook on Death in Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” Death is considered by many to be the heartbreaking termination of existence; the moment when one is compelled to despair, to concede loss, and yield to the inescapable. As discouraging as this outlook on death may appear, one may be amazed at why Emily Dickinson preferred to make death one among the major themes in her poems. Because numerous poets of the 19th century composed…

According to Judith Butler in her book, Precarious Life: the Powers of Mourning and Violence, “those who gain representation, especially self-representation, have a better chance of being humanized, and those who have no chance to represent themselves run a greater risk of being treated as less than human, regarded as less than human, or indeed, not regarded at all” (141). Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro, and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid, use the lives of their protagonists…

In this essay I will be discussing domestic violence in New Zealand, and with specific reference to R.W Connells work on Hegemonic Masculinities (Connell & Messerschmidt, Hegemonic Masculinity; Rethinking the Concept, 2005). I will be discussing how positive more peaceful patterns of masculinity need to become the hegemonic form, in order to try and assist in the movement towards less domestic violence, especially toward women. There are both social and public policy implementations that can be…

Sexuality and Gender on the Social Media: Julia Alison Introduction Julia Allison a former sex columnist and social media enthusiast is today 34 years. Julia became famous back in 2008 after wearing condom made bustier to a Gawker party that was attended by several journalists. This was a good-old-days strategic method to attract the media attention. Julia is remembered for her micro-fame as the Time Out New York dating columnist (Forbes). Today, Julia is an entrepreneur, journalist,…

In “Performative Gender”, Butler points out that, “ as a strategy of survival, gender is a performance with clearly punitive consequences. Discrete genders are part of what ‘humanizes’ individuals within contemporary culture; indeed, those who fail to do their gender right are regularly…

Annalena Lorenz in her article titled The Danish Girl and the De/Construction of Gender Identity theorised that Einar Wegener, or Lila Elbe (Eddie Redmayne) had to perform a ‘theatrical performance’ while living in the normal everyday life in the assigned gender of male but during the period of minute 37:25 through until minute 40 while backstage at the theatre with the costumes, the audience should be expecting a ‘theatrical performance’ but instead Einer can ‘openly and freely be whom he feels…

Staurt Hall was Inspired by Richard Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy (1958, 1970), Raymond Williams' Culture and Society (1958) and The Long Revolution (1961), and E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class (1963), the birth of British cultural studies is generally associated with the 1964 founding of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham by Hoggart and Stuart Hall. Over the next two decades, as education in England faced severe economic hardship, cultural studies…

Roles: A Sociological Perspective’, Linda L Lindsey 2016, discusses gender roles in marriage much in the same way it was performed in the film. “When normative role behaviour becomes to rigidly defined, our freedom of action is often comprised”. Judith Butler is well known for her writings on Gender and Performance and in her article ‘Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory’, she disputes the linking of gender to biological components of being and…