POLS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Judith Butler, Gender Role, Queer Theory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2150
• Professor: Carol Dauda

Document Summary

Butler says that gender is a field of ambivalence. A woman is born female and becomes a woman . Butler doesn"t feel like she fits in any sort of identity. You can be a woman, and be any sexuality that you want. Can cause anxiety, fear of loss of place and identity. It is possible to lose your identity. Thinks that everyone fails at gender because you can"t be every stereotype that"s been collected for that gender. They feel fear over seeing someone who is not conforming. Gender is a series of stereotypical images. Man in maine was walking down the street with a sashay as he went. *began to be harassed by the boys in the town. *threw him over a bridge and killed him. There seems to be a deep panic or fear related to gender norms. We have to question the relationship between complying with gender and coercion.