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Introduction
Discussion Question
Gender Performance
In groups, discuss what the word "queer"
has meant to you the first time you heard it.
Open discussion on how it has changed over time and what the word means to you now.
Troubling Gender, subverting identities: interview with Judith Butler.
What is Performativity?
Queer Theory: An Introduction
‘Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An essay in Phenomenology and Feminist theory’
Required text #1
Initially raised as a “social construct; something designed and implemented and perpetuated by social organizations and structures, rather than something merely ”true,” something innate to the ways bodies worked on a biological level.”
Teresa de Lauretis brought up the term after editing feminist study journal titled: "Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities."
Butler, J. (1990). Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. United States: Routledge Classics.
Butler, J. 1988, "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory", Theatre Journal, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 519-531.
Boundless, Gender Roles and Differences, 2015, [online], Available: https://www.boundless.com/psychology/textbooks/boundless-psychology-textbook/gender-and-sexuality-15/introduction-to-gender-and-sexuality-75/gender-roles-and-differences-296-12831/ [Accessed 9th of April]
Cranny-Francis, A., Waring, W., Stavropoulos, P., & Kirby, J. (2003). Gender studies: Terms and debates. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
Eelluga, Dino. “Modules of Butler: On Performativity.”Introductory Guide to Critical Theory.,2002, [online], Available:https://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/genderandsex/modules/butlerperformativity.html [Accessed 8th of April, 2015]
Jagose, A. (2015). Queer Theory: An Introduction. Retrieved from PhilPapers: http://philpapers.org/rec/JAGQTA
Jagose, A. (1997). Queer Theory. Retrieved from Australian Humanities Review: http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-Dec-1996/jagose.html
Klages, M. (2011, March 4). Queer Theory. Retrieved from University of Colorado at Boulder: www.colorado.edu
Reddy, V., & Butler, J. (2004). Troubling genders, subverting identities: Interview with Judith Butler. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, 18(62), 115-123.
My.vanderbilt.edu, (2015). Judith Butler on gender as “performed” or “performative” Critical Theory. [online] Available: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/criticaltheoryfall13/2013/11/judith-butler-on-gender-as-performed-or-performative/ [Accessed 11 Apr. 2015].
Valentine, D. 2007. Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category. Duke University Press.
Gender expression vs gender identity
Three core points:
1. a refusal of heterosexuality as the benchmark for all sexual formations;
2. an attentiveness to gender capable of interrogating the frequent assumptions that lesbian and gay studies is a single homogeneous object;
3. and an insistence on the multiple ways in which race crucially shapes sexual subjectives.
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