POLB91H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Judith Butler, Nobel Peace Prize, Liberal Democracy
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Gendering development and the gender gap in education. India girl nominated for her nobel peace prize and girls in pakistan. At 14 when she was walking home, her relationship with her father was very patriarchal. Women have been earning 57% bas and masters alone in usa. In the west, there is a gender gap such as women overpassing men b/c they get degrees now more than men. Gay rights movements have made headlines all over the world. Distinction between sex and gender social and biological. Gender is a social construct it means that categories of men and women are not necessarily real or apparent and change over time. Judith butler says we perform gender everyday such as girls doing makeup and hair and sex is not caused by gender. Butler is deconstructing gender, she said instead of categories of men and women, gender should be placed in a continuum and not put in discrete categories.
