Political Science 3207F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Judith Butler, Postmodern Feminism, Social Construction Of Gender
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By exposing social construction of gender, we can restructure social order. Social order thinks identity is fixed; when someone is fluid, we think something is wrong w them. Gender = tone, loweness; primed to think this way. Challenge the foundations of knowledge about gender. Question that women can or should be unified, and that "women" as a group can have a single viewpoint about what constitutes gender inequality. Rebel against accepting the gendered social order as unchanging or pre-given; gender is socially constructed and more of a kind of performance of identity that is always subject to change and modifications. Construe gender as a complex hierarchy of privileged and subordinated persons intersected by racial, ethnic, and class positions. Both difference and sameness is socially constructed. Rebel as accepting social order as unchanging. Gender = performance of identity always subject to change. Gender = construct of different tiers of racial, ethnic and class.