Judith Butler

of gender encompasses a whole range of identities across a spectrum. In particular ideas like what does it mean to be equal? (Butler) and seeing division of gender into binary conceptions of identity can be seen as a process of ‘othering’ (de Beauvoir) are some of the areas that this topic examines. Undoing Gender by Judith Butler This book features a collection of Judith Butler’s essays and her primary intention with this collection is to “focus on the question of what it might mean to undo restrictive

Anyone who has ever attempted to read any literature written by gender theorist, Judith Butler, knows how much of a struggle it is to decode her main points. Even after taking three gender studies courses, reading multiple articles, and analyzing portions from her books, I still have a difficult time comprehending just exactly what Judith Butler is stating. One cannot simply read her writing once and expect fully understand her points. If you say can, then you are lying. I would describe Butler’s

Judith Butler’s approach in “From Undoing Gender” lets the audience see a different side of opinions regarding gender. Judith’s presence and way of speaking lets us look at things in a way we never had before. She demonstrates her way of thinking, acknowledges other peoples ways of thinking and also goes outside the box in creating her own definition of undergoing gender. When we look up gender in the dictionary it states “Although it is possible to define gender as “sex,” indicating that the

publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices, and she writes in her preface to the 10th anniversary edition released

Giving an Account of Oneself, a compelling piece of work written by Judith Butler, digs deep into what it means to give an account of oneself and how it is nearly, if not entirely, impossible to do such an activity without becoming “a social theorist” (Butler 8). Butler states “the story of my origin I tell is not one for which I am accountable, and it cannot establish my accountability,” (Butler 37) since the story is always changing. We are not able to give our accounts as the accounts we give

on ‘Gender’. This essay argues posing foucauldian postmodernism of Judith Butler against Baudrillardean post modernism of Arthur and Marilouse Kroker with analysis on both their ideas on gender including sex and sexuality. This essay also argues that these two approaches are fully flawed for a number of important reasons. This essay offered an argument on the ideas of two of the most prominent postmodernists in the field of

comes to Butler and based on her essay that we studied “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory” where she introduced the term of gender performativity and based it on a feminist phenomenological outlook and suggested that this is based on experiences that we live. Butler accepts the notion of a "distinction between sex, as biological facticity, and gender, as the cultural interpretation or signification of that facticity". (Butler, Judith (1988). "Performative

In Gender Trouble, Judith Butler discusses complications with constructions of inner and outer worlds of the body. She argues that “internalization of gender”, as common linguistics describes it, is a part of the heterosexual hegemonic binary of gender conformity which distinguishes inner and outer worlds. Gender, in the commonly accepted model, is innate and through a process of bringing out the inner gender is expressed. Butler proposes, instead, that “the gendered body is performative” and

CHAPTHER ONE INTRODUCTION Joanna Russ’s The Female Man mainly represents how its central characters, Jeannine, Joanna, Janet and Jael, affected by society when they playing gender roles. In this chapter there are three main sections. The first section mentions the life of the author, Joanna Russ, the second section is about the summary of The Female Man and the third section outlines my research questions under the name of Research hypothesis. 1.1 Joanna Russ Joanna Russ was born February

cultural circumstance and pay more attention to pragmatic analysis. J. L. Austin (1999), who proposes the concept of “performative”, shows us the underlying ability of language that the utterance can actually do things. Based on the work of Austin, Judith Butler (1999) develops the language philosophy from “performative” to “performativity” in relation to gender. I will argue that language used to utter a sentence in a proper environment is not merely a description, but a real action. And in terms of gender