WGS 388 Chapter Notes - Chapter Preface: Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, Social Construction Of Gender

• School: DePaul University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS 388
• Professor: Anne Mitchell

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Preface (ix: materiality, not simple, move beyond boundaries, move through and into the world, bodies aren"t objects. The body: what about the materiality of the body? , gendered, feminist writing, has attempted to define the feminine body, logos, http://www. monroecc. edu/archannou. nsf/attachments/397. %20a. piccarreto. pdf: oppressive nature of projecting language onto our bodies by labeling them based on certain parts idea of sex and gender, biological and psychological problems with a binary. Inequality created by separating people into sexes heart of gender based violence. Judy vs. judith (x: patronizing, childish, femininity. Judy garland: gender picks you?, so no one picks their gender, gender performativity, gender trouble, existence is already decided by gender . Materiality of sex is constructed through a ritualized repetition of norms : eating, dying, living, pain, pleasure constructs bodies (xi) Attached to your leg well what is: construction is a constitutive constraint . "sex" is an ideal construct which is forcibly materialized through time .