ALL153 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Judith Butler, Nail Polish, Tomboy
Gender – literature
Prince cinders and Princess Smarty-pants
Movement in relation to girls dress how they want to,
Boys wearing nail polish and dresses – discouraged generally
Sex – biological
Gender – socially constructed
Judith butler
Embedded in narrative writing – fairy tales – gender, sexuality, motherhood, women and
men, consent, beauty – snow white
Princess smarty-pants
First page – pushing agenda, straight forward, pretty and rich
Second page – massive pets, tomboy representation despite hair and crown
Third- Women – fid yourself a husbad
Flippig the idea of e’s ability, represetatio that e are useless
Smarty-pants – negative
Challenging rigid ideas
Outsmart gender and rules of society
Princess and the frog
Lived happily – without a man/ marriage
Last page – non-flat belly, happy
Prince cinders
Small crown, making mess
Cinderella
Men + muscles = +chicks
End – prince cinders represented lying down with the princess eating the grapes.
Big buff hairy man punishment – do female work
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