Judith Butler’s work is revolutionary in the understanding of gender/sex. Her work helps us to move away from classifying gender as expressive and toward understanding gender as performative. Please begin your essay by explaining the difference between classifying gender as expressive and gender as performative. Butler also states that gender is fabricated and that genders cannot be true or false but only produced. Please explain what she means by this and provide an example. Finally, why is understanding gender/sex performativity crucial in challenging the idea of gender/sex normativity?
Textbook: DeFrancisco, V. P. & Palczewski, C. H. (2019). Gender in communication: A critical introduction (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
The essay will cover the some of the following conceptual areas: (You don’t need to use all of them) (include terms that are relevant to your paper)
Gendered/Sexed Bodies
Embodied Communication
Cartesian Dualism (Binaries)
Body/Signifier (Object)
Body/Subject (Agent)
- Body/Surface (Inscription)
- Performativity
- Hegemonic Norms & Intersectionality
- Body Privilege
- Making Norms Visible
- Refusing the command performance
- Gendered/Sexed Bodies and Spaces
- Symbolic Space
- Manspreading
- Politics of Invisibility & Intersectionality
Reclaiming Public Space
Overtly Challenging Norms
- Gender/Sex and Sports
- R. Barthes
- Spectacle of Gender/Sex
- Ideological Narrative
- Semiotic Analysis: Denotation, Connotation, Myth
Constructing and Performing Masculinity in Pro Wrestling
Gender/Sex Gap in Sports
- Hegemony: Process of Concession & Consent
- Gender/Sex in Media Institutions
- Media Studies
- Media Audiences
- A. Medhurst, Batman, Deviance and Camp
- F. Wertham, The Seduction of the Innocent
- S. Sontag, Notes on Camp
Camp & Performativity
Hegemony: Concession and Consent
- Progress and/or Regress
- Backlash
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