ANT208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Performativity, Nicki Minaj, Judith Butler
Document Summary
The cool culture soul machine: the anthropology of everyday life. Gender and race: identity politics in popular culture. Debate is complex with shades of gray, fine line between empowerment and perpetuating dominant discourses of gender. Postmodernism and performativity: nicki minaj meets judith butler. Judith butler and performativity: gender in everyday life. Offers feminist perspective on notion of gender. Performativity is the aspect of discourse that produces ideas through reproduction and repetition. Gender is unstable and unfixed becomes fixed through performance: how we act and represent identity. Talk about eating disorder and linked it to the influence of the media. How consumers (women) internalize the meaning of beauty. And how companies continue to support the dominant discourse of women. There"s an idea of beauty being a currency system.
