DANC 010AD Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Performativity, Elaine Showalter, Androgyny
10 Sep 2020
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Virginia woolf: a room of one"s own (1929, shakespeare"s (fictitious) sister, chlo liked olivia (lesbian love story, androgyny of the mind (artist) Simone de beauvoir: the second sex (1949, one is not born but rather becomes a woman. , we have to acquire gender / be taught gender. Academic pursuit: women"s studies: content based change, main goal undermine constitutional sexism (but still today included in canon. Elaine showalter: a literature of their own (1977, search for female aesthetic. Sandra gilbert & susan gubar: the madwoman in the attic (1979, re-reading the english literary canon from feminist point of view. Adrienne rich: compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence (1983, feminism ignores lesbian position. Bel hooks: black women: shaping feminist theory (1984, feminism should be called white feminism" ignores black women"s position. Women studies ends & gender studies begins. Focus: deconstructing naturalised concepts import from philosophy: deconstruction. What queer theory adds to gender studies: sex, gender, desire queer theory.
