ARTH 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Judith Butler, Simone De Beauvoir

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Art History and Visual Culture
• Course: ARTH 301
• Professor: T'ai Smith

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(519) judith butler, gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity (1990). she is appropriating and reinterpreting this doctrine of constituting acts from the phenomenological tradition. " In this sense, gender is in no way a stable identity or locus of agency from which various acts proceede; rather, it is an identity tenuously constituted in time-an identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts. Judith identifies gender identity as a (cid:498)performative accomplishment compelled by social sanction and taboo. (cid:499) (cid:523)5(cid:884)0(cid:524). Gender is constituted in the phenomenological understanding of (cid:498)acts(cid:499) as (cid:498)socially shared and historically constituted (cid:523)5(cid:885)0(cid:524)(cid:499). Gender is instituted through acts over time, it has to be enacted or film for presentation in a gallery setting. She challenged what(cid:495)s expected from cleaning as a woman artist. In her revolutionary manifesto, she states (cid:494)housewife = no pay(cid:495) to critique the pay gap between men and women.